As I went through the results of my recent readers survey, I was struck by a particular comment. I like your reflections on parenting Sally, but they have little to do with Sally. They are about you reinventing parenting and allowing Sally to teach you. This comment is so true. I never thought when I [...]
Last week I took Sally to the park. When we pulled in, she completely freaked out. She started crying and yelling. No! Not here! Go back out, mommy! I responded as I normally do. Sally, it’s okay, calm down. Tell mommy what’s wrong. … Honey, just take a deep breath, calm down, and use your [...]
Latebloomer recently wrote an excellent post called “Post-Fundamentalist Motherhood.” I’ve often had readers tell me that they read my posts and feel like I’m reading their minds. In this case, I felt the same when reading Latebloomer’s post – she was articulating my thoughts almost exactly. I’m going to quote from her article and add [...]
You remember when I talked recently about positive parenting and saying “I’m sorry?” Well, I recently came upon an excellent article on the same topic: “Eleven Steps for Healing and Restoring the Peace after Being Harsh with Your Child.” Here are the eleven steps (be sure to read the full article!): Calm yourself Accept your [...]
Today I yelled at Sally. I was trying to finish a project and she was getting in the way again and again and I just snapped. I stormed upstairs to finish what I was working on in peace, leaving Sally downstairs with her daddy. I knew yelling like that was not right and I knew [...]
I’ve been doing a bit of work on my parenting section, and in the process I found a couple of links to share. Positive Parenting is NOT Permissive Parenting clearly lays out the differences between authoritarian parenting, permissive parenting, and positive parenting. This same website offers a three-part introduction to positive parenting for newbies: Part [...]
This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts I’ve written in the past on issues involving parenting and Michael and Debi Pearl. I think these posts may be of interest to new readers, and if you’re a reader who has been around with me since the beginning, they [...]
I have to say, the #1 hardest time to gentle parent is when I’m around Pearl-following relatives. It’s actually one of the things I dread about visiting my parents house, because I know they will be watching my daughter for any error and chalking it up to the failure of my gentle parenting methods. The [...]
Last night I had a parenting adventure that was both reassuring and sobering. It involved a situation all parents face in exasperation many times in their parenting careers: A toddler wide awake in the middle of the night. You see, a small voice beside my bed woke me up in the middle of the night [...]
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