Last month, my son received an award in school. Something I really like is that his school gives out character awards as opposed to academic awards. The award my son received was for demonstrating respect.
Of course as his mom, I was very teary and sniffly and proud as could be during the awards assembly. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting'
Raised With Respect
November 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · General Interest · Practice Positive Discipline · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Principles · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity
Shouldn’t We Invest More Thought In Our Parenting Than Planning Our Next Vacation?
November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The decisions we make for our daughter today may affect her for a lifetime in more ways than one, which, in my opinion, makes them some of the most important and far-reaching we will ever be faced with. And yet, it seems that many people are willing to put more time into researching vacation destinations [...]
Tags: General Interest · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
Does Attachment Parenting Pertain To Me?
September 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
My kids are not babies. They sleep in their own rooms. They don’t breastfeed. If I wore them in a carrier, the sling would rip and my spine would snap. They have homework.
Does attachment parenting still pertain to me?
Sometimes it seems as though the API principles are geared mainly toward babies and toddlers: have the [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Practice Positive Discipline · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Principles · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity · Siblings · Strive for Balance · Use Nurturing Touch
Who Says Kids Don’t Like Curry?
September 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The first time a friend offered Violet a veggie “puff,” I was puzzled. ”They’re healthy,” she explained. “They’re made from vegetables.” Why not, I wondered, just give her the actual vegetables instead?
Western culture has an unfortunate tendency toward dumbing-down food for kids. Whether it’s for the sake of convenience, or the mistaken assumption that kids won’t [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
Breastfeeding while pregnant: trying at times, but ultimately worthwhile
August 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Originally posted on May 25, 2008 on Crunchy Domestic Goddess
When I became pregnant with my son, my daughter Ava was about 20 months old and still nursing regularly. While I had friends who’s children had self-weaned when they became pregnant, I had my doubts that my “na-na”-loving kid would consider weaning for a second, even [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Siblings
Breastfeeding Twins?!
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
“Are you still breastfeeding?”
Every woman who breastfeeds her children will, without fail, at some point be asked that very pointed question.
“Are you still breastfeeding?”
It almost doesn’t matter how long you’ve been nursing for: someone is going to ask. At three months? Six months? A year? Doesn’t matter. Someone will ask you.
Sometimes the subtext is awe: [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · General Interest · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
World Breastfeeding Week- Supporting Nursing Mothers
August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
World Breastfeeding Week starts on August 1, and runs through August 7th. The theme of this year is “Mother Support- Going for the Gold.”
Supporting a mother who is breastfeeding is so important. There are so many other demands that a new mother faces when nursing, having support can be invaluable to the mother [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · General Interest · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Provide Consistent & Loving Care
Maintaining our right to choose
July 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the American Medical Association’s decision to try to outlaw home birth over at my blog Crunchy Domestic Goddess. This announcement really hit close to home (no pun intended) since I had a home birth with my son Julian and, should my husband Jody and I want to [...]
Tags: Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
On breastfeeding while pregnant
May 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
This month’s Motherwear Carnival of Breastfeeding is on the topic of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
When my husband and I decided to try to have another baby when our son was 10 months old, the realities of breastfeeding while pregnant were far from my mind. Like so many other aspects of parenting, I did not really know [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
Toddler Communication
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
When my daughter Erika was a baby, several of my new mom-friends were practicing sign language with their children, but I was never interested. I really couldn’t figure out what the benefit would be, as it didn’t seem to me that I had any trouble understanding what she was trying to communicate. She pointed [...]
Tags: Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Respond with Sensitivity



