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I love to wake up to a baby in my bed, or any child for that matter. One of my favorite times of the day is when we take our afternoon nap. I lay down on my queen-size mattress with my son nursing next to me. I’m lying on my side, with a pillow placed [...]
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Sometimes, babies cry. They do. Even when we’re the most attentive, most attuned parents. And all we can do is to hold them and do our best to soothe them as they cry out their frustrations. My son is five months old now. Today, he cried for nearly an hour before he fell asleep. I [...]
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Writing poetry is like painting with words. You can have all the tools for painting- brush, paints, canvas- and never really create anything from the heart. You can write poetry as an assignment, but unless it comes from the inner self it is just words on paper. That isn’t to say that poems written within [...]
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Savor the moment. When your children are younger, every day feels like a year. But as they get older, every year feels like a day. Enjoy these days. You’ll never get them back. Before you know it, they’re out of the house. This is the easiest time to parent – when your children are young [...]
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The idea that your baby must go to the doctor on a set schedule for well checkups has probably been ingrained in you from the beginning of your pregnancy. But, what if it’s not that clear cut? The well baby schedule coincides nicely with the standard vaccine schedule. But what if you choose to delay [...]
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From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne In all these examples, which are merely suggestive, it is impossible to lay down an absolute moral recipe, because circumstances so truly alter cases—in all these no mention is made of corporal punishment. This is because corporal punishment is never necessary, never right, but is always [...]
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Do you schedule naps for your children? I go back and forth with whether this is appropriate for a family practicing Attachment Parenting (AP). When my children are babies, I don’t schedule naps at all. Babies sleep when they need to sleep. But as my children get older, they usually go through a phase where [...]
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Have you ever planned and organized a seemingly awesome field trip for your kids only to be disappointed in how little they paid attention, how boring it was, or how they behaved? Did the field trip feel like a failure? Whether you attend regular field trips with your local homeschool group or you plan them [...]
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From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne Impudence Impudence is largely due to, (1) lack of perception: (2) bad example and suggestion; and (3) a double standard of morality. Lack of Perception (1) In the first place, too much must not be expected of the young savages in the nursery. Remember that the [...]
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When I talk to other parents about issues they’re having with their children, I’ve noticed that many problems come down to power struggles between parent and child. It’s a situation familiar to me from my own childhood, and even with my daughter only being a toddler, I can sometimes see myself having my own battles [...]
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From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne Positive Commands As we shall see in the next section, Froebel meets this difficulty by substituting positive commands for prohibitions; that is, he tells the child to do instead of telling him not to do. Tiedemann says that example is the first great evolutionary teacher, and liberty is [...]
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One of the most challenging things our children can do is to hit out. It’s a common problem, but one that can leave us feeling desperate, offended, or like failed parents. Especially if that hitting is towards other children, and we have the added embarassment and humiliation of having to apologise and maybe even take [...]
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