Parenting and Power
Information is power. And children have considerably less information than we do about the world around them.
Posts Tagged ‘parenting and children’
Consensual Living — and the Life Changing Effect of Parenthood
Consensual Living is a philosophy, or collection of principles, by which families get along together without coercion, addressing everybody’s needs on an equal basis. The basic principles as I understand them are equality, trust and self determination.
Placebo Pills for Children
A company in the USA produces children’s placebo tablets, cure-alls containing absolutely no active substances, selling in effect the illusion that there is a pill for every kind of distress.
Unparenting the Children, Parenting Yourself
Why do some parents become over-involved with their children’s lives? And what can they do about it? Maybe the first step toward letting go of a vice-like emotional grip on children is to work out what your own needs are.
The Luxury of Time for Stress!
Trying and failing to get a baby off to sleep at naptime provided another chance to watch my mind in action, ruining another perfectly good 45 minutes of my life.
