Conscious Parenting

I think it’s true to say that by the time our children leave home, we’d love to think that a few nuggets of our hard-won wisdom will go with them as they set…

Listen to the original interview with Jamie Grumet on her experience as the Time cover advocate for full-term breastfeeding in May 2012.  Lisa Reagan asks Jamie…

“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…

Discovering Dad: And Staying Connected Today, father is factoring more prominently in research studies, and the findings are fascinating— children…

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…

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,…

We’ve all witnessed it – our serene and blissful child transforming before our eyes over a seemingly small disappointment or discomfort. His freshly built,…

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…

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…

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…