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Homegrown Tomatoes Erin Liles explores how children, like homegrown tomatoes, can flourish in a natural and often times unruly environment. |
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Let's Take a Bath in the Magical Forest In our house, hairbrushes sing songs and tell stories about untangling brambles and finding shiny waterfalls. |
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Parental Anger: Mindfulness and Letting Go Anger does not mean that you don't love your children dearly. |
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Rules, Rituals, and Routines If there have never been consistent routines, then all the child will know is unpredictability. Children can learn to healthily adapt to changes only from a baseline of consistent routine. |
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Saved by the Bee We need to teach our children skills that will help them resolve a conflict peacefully before it gets to the physical level. |
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Alternatives to Punishment Need some help with punishment alternatives? Copy this list and post it where you can see it, as a constant reminder. |
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The Tao of Jake On Being the Mother of a "Challenging Child." This mom learned to let her son live on his schedule. |
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Mothering in Perspective It's hard being a mom. And it's hard being a child. We take our sons and daughters with us to different places and we pray they will "behave." |
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Compassionate Connection We do want our son to develop the resources to care for himself and to meet his needs effectively. We also want him to be deeply connected to himself and to others. |
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Anger Management for Moms Just like much of modern discipline involves keeping the child out of bothersome situations, so does anger management involve keeping yourself out of them. |
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And the Bible Sayeth, Train up a Child in the Way He Should Go The key to compassionate, successful Christian parenting is simply to discover your tools and use them according to the plan that God has for you and your child. |
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