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Conscious Parenting
Three Good Things to Read, Watch and Use
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
I was recently contacted…
The New Fatherhood: Yes, They Can Do It
Discovering Dad: And Staying Connected
Today, father is factoring more prominently in research studies, and the findings are fascinating— children…
Five Things Mothers Want Dads to Know – But Don’t Know How to…
1. Our new mother self-esteem can be a fragile thing, our confidence just a veneer. This is partly because we have been bombarded with perfect (and so…
Save Your Marriage While Raising a Compassionate Child
Yesterday, two things happened:
(1) I had two separate conversations with new parents about how having a baby can be like a wrecking-ball to a marriage,…
Ten Steps for Taming a “Tantrum” With Love
We’ve all witnessed it – our serene and blissful child transforming before our eyes over a seemingly small disappointment or discomfort. His freshly built,…
Brain Damaged: How Our Parents Screwed Us Up Without Meaning To (by a…
In the fall of 2005, while listening to Peter Levine’s CDs on Healing Trauma during a solo road trip from Palo Alto, California to Boulder, Colorado, I hardly…
Leaning Together: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing…
I Never Learned to Love Children
In her book, All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks wrote this paragraph that has stayed with me for some time. I've written about it before, but for some…
Robin Grille… in a Boat on the Thames River! A Video Interview
Robin Grille, Interview, author of 'Parenting for a Peaceful World' and 'Heart to Heart Parenting' from Elmer Postle on Vimeo.
A stimulating interview with…
10 Signs that You May Not Be Present and 10 Ways to be Mindful with Your…
One week ago I way lying in a hospital bed with my mother, holding her hand, my cheek next to hers, wading through an illness that had stopped her in her…