This MM expands on the idea of allowing children opportunities to experience life without over-protecting as brought up in the last MM.
Parents are certainly parents to take care of their children. In the efforts to keep children safe parents can shelter their children to some extent. The protecting itself is not necessarily a problem as [...]
Read about the first parent here.
On the other side of the planet (or street…) there was another parent.
This parent not only did too much in the way of almost letting life pass him by while he was doing, doing, doing.
He also did too much of one thing with his kids.
How could that be?
He did too [...]
There once was a parent who did too much.
She enjoyed many of the things she did and some of them she didn’t enjoy much at all.
At one point, she realized that she wasn’t really living life to do things… she was here to be.
That changed things for this parent.
As she began to embrace this truth [...]
Imagine you’re a sponge and the whole world is water. Now you are in the experience of a child.
Some bodies of water are clear and fresh and others are stale and murky. And you’re the sponge.
How can you choose to soak up the fresh instead of the murky?
As an adult, you know that you have [...]
There are many times of year when children and parents get excited about what’s happening in life. Sometimes, though, the excitement a child feels is not in conjunction with a parents… or the excitement is showing up more like stress.
What to do? Entertain it.
Whether you or your child are experiencing excitement [...]
This MM was inspired by a conversation I had with Christine during a *rough* parenting moment while transforming my thoughts, words, and actions :o).
The Sit Down
When today’s parents were kids or when our parents were kids children might have been told occasionally to sit down and shut up. The idea that children are to be [...]
Imagine a child who along life’s journey takes each and every experience to heart. Some sadden and some enliven and each one is tucked away inside where the child can access them to feel good… or bad.
As she makes her way in life she realizes that no matter what she does to fill her [...]
The mailbox gives without judgment, too. It fully accepts the mail that is deposited into it willing to hold it until the mail person picks it up to send it along its way.
How does this apply to parenting? It’s equally important and worth while to allow one’s self to give as it is [...]
A few days ago I wrote about being open to receive when interacting with children. The metaphor of being a non-judgmental mailbox was used. This MM expands the idea.
There’s a cycle in life that we’re all aware of, yet many parents can get caught in one side of the equation. The cycle [...]
When we’re little we are often taught it’s not polite or nice to say no. Yet there are times that what we’re feeling is definitely no. There are many reasons why we feel that way and much of it has to do with upbringing and societal conditioning.
It doesn’t really matter what the [...]