Yesterday, in the middle of my post-meltdown stupor, I received my Compassionate Parenting Tips email. It asked me this:
When your needs are met it is easier to meet your child’s needs, too. What needs – yours and your child’s – aren’t currently being met as well as you would like?
It then went on to suggest [...]
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Needs vs Wants vs Reality
Our Ideas for Highly-Sensitive Transitioning
Moving, traveling or any other major changes and transitions are hard enough for kids, but for a highly-sensitive child, they really start to feel impossible. In my last post I explained our biggest part of helping him transition – the emotional aspect. But there are others things we’re trying to do to help him, as [...]
Highly-Sensitive Transitioning: Before The Move
Zeb, making a list of our dreams: places and people we want to see
and things we want to do on the road.
When we first started discussing the decision to travel full-time and eventually settle outside of Vegas, we included Zeb. How could we not? He’s one-third of our family and his experience will be as [...]
Playful Parenting: My Thoughts
You can put me down as one more voice enthusiastically recommending the book, Playful Parenting!
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It was truly fantastic, forever going in my Top Five parenting books, directly behind Alfie Kohn and Naomi Aldort. The author, Lawrence Cohen, speaks from the same radical view – that children are individuals deserving of respect and patience as they [...]
Reading: The Highly Sensitive Child
For reasons I’m not quite ready to elaborate on (and some you already know), life is a bit stressful right now.
So, I’m doing what any woman in her right mind should do: I’m postponing the chores, stocking up on long-awaited library loaners and curling up for some much needed down time.
I just finished The Highly [...]
