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Spare the rod. Save the child.

Yesterday I re-posted a link on my Facebook page to The Center for Effective Discipline’s Spank Out Day.  Honestly, I almost didn’t re-post it because I thought it rather unnecessary to tell people not to spank for two reasons.  1) Most people don’t spank anymore anyway.  2) People that do spank know there are better [...]

HB #28- Guest Podcast:: Freedom & Responsibility with Barb Lundgren and Quinn Eaker

Quinn is Barb’s oldest child and a grown unschooler.  Having been unschooled in the deepest sense of the word, his sense of self is strong and his awareness is broad.  Discussions with Quinn are immediately intimate.  There is no small talk, no waste of a moment.  He truly lives the intention of being present in [...]

Rethinking Everything Conference 2010 is Upon Us!

Yes, it’s almost here!  Chris and I are once again thrilled to be a part of this amazing, life changing, growth experience so aptly renamed the Rethinking Everything Conference.  We are prepared to enlighten and be enlightened, connect, grow, challenge, be challenged, inspire, expand, and have TONS of fun!  I can [...]

HB#26- Guest Podcast:: Freedom & Responsibility with Barb Lundgren and Teresa Brett

Another great guest podcast especially for you! 

Barb Lundgren of the Rethinking Everything Conference and Rethinking Everything Magazine and Teresa Brett of Parenting for Social Change dissect the process of consciously moving forward in our parenting by addressing our personal blocks and challenges that hold us captive in struggle.

Topic:  The Spiral of Learning, Growth, Freedom and [...]

HB #24- Guest Podcast:: Freedom & Responsibility with Barb Lundgren & Scott Noelle

I have a surprise for you!  In preparation for the Rethinking Everything Conference in September, Barb Lundgren is hosting a series of seven conference calls focusing on many different areas of concern for parents regarding Freedom and Responsibility.  I will be sharing them here with you. 

In this episode: Barb and Scott Noelle discuss how [...]

Co-Creating with Teresa Brett

Listen to my interview with Teresa!

Recently, I had the rich experience of interviewing (conversing really) with Teresa Brett of Parenting for Social Change on Co-Creator Radio Network.  The interview is in preparation for Teresa’s speaking at the upcoming Rethinking Everything Conference about which I am so excited.  I have a previous connection with Teresa through [...]

Analyzing “No”

Have you ever thought about why you say the word, “no” to your children?  Parents are incredibly trigger happy and “no” is their bullet.  Sometimes “no” is disguised in a few other words or hidden entirely in a phrase that sounds different but, in the end, means “no” (e.g. – “not right now”). 

Children [...]

CPS- We're A-OK

There have been a smattering of blog comments in response to Discovery Health’s ‘Radical Parenting’ special indicating that Child Protective Services should be involved with our family.  Why?  From the perspective of an overbearing, traditionally-minded parent, the dynamic of our family is frighteningly lax.  It is immediately assumed that because our children are not FORCED [...]

HB #20- Product and Process- 'Radical Parenting'- the special review

Join my husband, Chris, and I as we discuss and explain some recently blogged comments about our recently aired segment of: 

Discovery Health Channel’s ‘Radical Parenting’ special
3 Families- Attachment Parenting, gender neutral parenting & radical unschooling

General consensus is that Radical Unschooling is, by far, the most ‘radical’ of the styles.  Hmmm.

General opinions-
1) Interesting take; [...]

The Mother He Needs

 

My article, “The Mother He Needs” has been published in the Jan/Feb issue of Life Learning Magazine  online. I’m very proud of this story. It is at the very core of what I feel is important in my mothering- intuitively feeling and truly listening to the needs of our individual children rather than societal [...]