Conscious Parenting

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    Staying Connected When You Don’t Want To Be

    I think it’s true to say that by the time our children leave home, we’d love to think that a few nuggets of our hard-won wisdom will go with them as they set sail out into the world. My first-born son moved out of home just over a year ago, a few weeks shy of [...]

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    Five Things Mothers Want Dads to Know – But Don’

      1. Our new mother self-esteem can be a fragile thing, our confidence just a veneer. This is partly because we have been bombarded with perfect (and so now we’re realising unrealistic) images of motherhood on the screen and in the pages of magazines. This makes our expectations of ourselves, and maybe your expectations of us, [...]

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    Save Your Marriage While Raising a Compassionate Child

    Yesterday, two things happened: (1) I had two separate conversations with new parents about how having a baby can be like a wrecking-ball to a marriage, especially in the first year. (2) Three different people asked me what tips I’d give parents who want to raise empathetic children. These conversations are related. First of all, [...]

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    I Never Learned to Love Children

    In her book, All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks wrote this paragraph that has stayed with me for some time. I’ve written about it before, but for some reason I was drawn back to want to write about it again. The first time I wrote something, I merely touched the surface of my feelings and [...]

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    Robin Grille… in a Boat on the Thames River! A Video

    A stimulating interview with Robin Grille, leading psychohistorian and author of ‘Parenting for a Peaceful World’. Grille describes a fascinating vision of the development of childrearing and how paying attention to how we raise our children pays dividends of peace. Read more from Robin Grille on Kindred: Heart to Heart Parenting, an Excerpt from the [...]