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  Leaving Home: Treacherous Leavings, Part 10

  Leaving Home: Treacherous Leavings, Part 10 Anyone who has undergone the experience of spiritual transformation knows how agonizing it can be. It is like cleaning the heart with a piece of steel wool. STEPHEN MITCHELL, introduction (section 7) to The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers [...]

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  Parenting: For the Troubled Teen Video, A Response

  Parenting for Social Change Author Responds to Violent Viral Video   You’ve probably seen links on Facebook to the You Tube video of the father who reads a letter posted by his daughter on her Facebook account complaining about how her parents treat her. At the end of the video, he stands up, pulls out [...]

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  The Gift of the Forest Mother

  Our orchid colonyThe Gift of the Forest Mother It’s a clear spring day and I wander into the woods behind the hen house, over the high ridge of the pond dam and its lady slipper orchid colony, into a low-lying forest carpeted with giant ferns… a place I never go because of the snakes I [...]

Leaving Home: Treacherous Leavings, Part 10

October 10 Conscious Parenting, Leaving Home, Youth no comments

Leaving Home: Treacherous Leavings, Part 10 Anyone who has undergone the experience of spiritual transformation knows how agonizing it can be. It is like cleaning the heart with a piece of steel wool. STEPHEN MITCHELL, i...

Parenting: For the Troubled Teen Video, A Response

February 15 Conscious Parenting, Conscious Parenting, Parenting for Social Change, Youth 1 comment

Parenting for Social Change Author Responds to Violent Viral Video   You’ve probably seen links on Facebook to the You Tube video of the father who reads a letter posted by his daughter on her Facebook account...

The Gift of the Forest Mother

October 10 Magic, Youth no comments

Our orchid colonyThe Gift of the Forest Mother It’s a clear spring day and I wander into the woods behind the hen house, over the high ridge of the pond dam and its lady slipper orchid colony, into a low-lying fore...

Suddenly Teens: Refocusing Adolescent Hostilities

March 17 Attachment Parenting / Bonding, Child development, Conscious Parenting, Youth no comments

Long gone is the era, of my life, when successful maternity consists of balancing a baby on my hip while counting out coins at a market stall. Today, I can no more define my significance by my homemaker chaos than I can ...

Suddenly Teens: Uncomplimentary Writing Notions

March 15 Conscious Parenting, Youth no comments

Children are possessed, especially when they hit their adolescent stride, of sufficient brassiness to derail even the most confident of mothers. Consider the impact of my teens’ points of view on my emerging writin...

Children are Changing, but Education Hasn’t

December 14 Attachment Parenting / Bonding, Conscious Parenting, Youth no comments

There was a very interesting article in the Weekend Australian 15-16th August that I want to share with you. It was written by Frank Furedi a professor of sociology at the University of Kent in England. It’s based ...

Suddenly Teens: The Not-So-Subtlety of Teens

December 14 Conscious Parenting, Youth no comments

It is not their careless muddying of our furniture, their respectively newly grown stubble or suddenly buxom silhouettes, or even their leftover piles of dishes that gives away the identities of my sons and daughters. Ra...

The Origins of Sustainability, by Kelly Wendorf

May 24 Sustainability, Thinking Global, Youth no comments

  In our commitment to saving the planet, we are often put at odds with our own species. Ecological destruction seems inevitable as long as humanity is present. How can we be the cure, rather than the disease? Most ...

Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in T...

March 5 Child development, Conscious Parenting, Media and Children, Youth no comments

(The following is an extract from the book, Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today’s Chaotic World by Maggie Dent.)                &n...

10 Tips for Shopping with Children

March 1 Conscious Parenting, Youth no comments

1  Remember that children have limits. If you are shopping with children, be alert to their needs: are they tired, hungry, overexcited by the noise and confusion, or simply in need of fresh air and exercise, or a re...