Kindred's mothering, early years blogs

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• I'm pregnant and I want to do Aware Parenting
  Question: Dear Marion, I’m 4 months pregnant and I’ve recently found out about Aware Parenti…
• The Aware Parenting Community
  Last week I left my quiet hometown of Mullumbimby, in Northern NSW, and travelled to the big smoke of Sydn…
• Me Time- A Can of Worms
  Negotiating me time can be a tricky task that we face as parents. There are both blocks within us, and als…
• Is Sleep Training Useful?
  Q: Dear Jan, We have a beautiful 8 month old baby boy! We co-sleep with him, and have done for the last f…
• What Can I Say to Family and Friends Who Don’t Understand Our Way of Parenting?
  Q: I read The Aware Baby when my baby, Clementine, was one month old, and started Aware Parenting s…
• The Slow Burning Bond: When Birth and Bonding Do Not Happen Concurrently
  When many of us think about bonding with a baby, the image that is evoked is that of holding your baby just after…
• Tough questions
  We were listening to the Eagles in the car when five-year-old Gracie asked, ‘Mummy, can love real…
• True love
  I stood at the doorway of my daughter’s bedroom one night as her father tucked her in and said go…
• Accessing Forgiveness of Self: Birth in the Context of the Childbearing Continuum
  Birth is big. That’s the paradigm I work with. There are very few events in life that have the sa…
• Parenting as Spiritual Practice
  Before I became pregnant, I had lots of room in my daily life for spiritual reflection and practice.  Min…
• The Next Uber-Cool Yummy Mummy Thing
  Recently I was invited to submit the Nappy Free! dvd to a GreenLifestyle Film Festival taking place…
• The Invitation of Aware Parenting – How our babies and children help us to flourish
  Do you want to help your child be the most she can be?  Do you want to give her all that you can give, so that s…
• I want to start Aware Parenting with my four year old, who hits me and throws things
  Question: Dear Marion, I have recently come across The Aware Baby and have found it so useful and…
• Soul to soul connection with our children
  “There is a divinity in the space between you and your child. A divine space that has never ever …
• The Sacred Family - Opening the Dark Passage of Grace in Birth and Parenting
  I am preparing for the birth of our third baby ... soon. Thoughts about preparing for this birth ar…
• The Sacred Family - Surviving The Day With Over-Tired Children!
  When my children are in good form they are dynamic and funny, adventurous and just really good comp…
• What's Behind the Need to Compete as Mothers?
  Cultural Conditioning for Competition Blinds Us to Joyful Mothering (This interview with Dr. Zucker is from…