Day Nine of Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering
I think for many parents the ability to set limits and boundaries in a calm manner can be such a hard thing. First of all, as a first-time attached parent, we have to learn how to surrender to this...
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We last were talking about boundaries in this post: https://theparentingpassageway.com/2012/08/16/day-nine-of-twenty-days-toward-more-mindful-mothering/ Boundaries are an interesting thing; once...
View ArticleRealistic Expectations: Day Ten of Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering
In Day Nine of “Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering”, we looked at our abilities to set boundaries. And, one thing I really wanted to hammer in was that boundaries work both ways – it is not...
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AGE FIVE: Often referred to as a “Golden Age” in development with five-and-a-Continuing on with our look at realistic expectations for the ages three through eight, we are up to age five. Age five...
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This is the third and final installment of “Day Number 10” of our series “Twenty Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother”. I just wanted to briefly cover the seven and eight year olds. These are ages...
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When you know about realistic expectations, what do you do with it all? Every child is different, every family culture is unique and onto itself in many ways. There is this guidepost -realistic...
View ArticleDay Eleven: Twenty Days Towards Being A More Mindful Mother
This is a topic near and dear to my heart: making your home work for you. This whole Homemaking, and this notion of “What makes a home a home?” is profoundly interesting to me! A house feeling like a...
View ArticleDay Twelve: Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering
What lovely timing to have the first day of Advent beginning tomorrow, and to have our topic for Day Twelve be that of “warmth.” I recently wrote about warmth on All Saints Day, one of my favorite...
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One thing that many Waldorf teachers do at night is to meditate on the children in their class. I think this practice is absolutely vital as a parent, and certainly as a homeschooling parent! In the...
View ArticleHumor: Day Fourteen Of Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering
(For those of you new to this blog, we have gone/are going through the series “Twenty Days Toward More Mindful Mothering” for the second time; you can find the back posts under the “General Wisdom” tab...
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