This series is almost done! I can’t believe it, can you all? Hopefully you gained a few insights, a little inspiration, to carry you forward in your parenting. Today we are going to talk about a difficult topic for many of us: the use of gentle discipline. Children need to function in this world, with [...]
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Tools for Gentle Discipline: Day Number 19 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Working Through The Body: Day Number 17 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Challenges, Parenting, Waldorf, gentle discipline, inner work on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, we have discussed over and over how important it is to approach a child through his or her BODY. This is vitally important as we deal with children who are pushing against the forms of the day – the “I won’t”s, “I can’t”s, “No”’s and “Make me”s (and yes, I have a child that [...]
Protection of the Senses: Day Number 15 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Waldorf Education and parenting, the twelve senses are what unites the inner and outer world of the individual and what allows us healthy interaction with other people at the highest developed levels. It takes a long time for these senses to be developed, but the foundational senses needed to develop some of the [...]
Humor: Day Number 14 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Humor is such an important tool in mothering and in generating positive outcomes in behavior that it had to have its own separate day! I think this is one place where many mothers, including myself, can fall short if we are not truly careful in cultivating this. Is everything in parenting really that serious? So [...]
Day Number 13 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One thing that many Waldorf teachers do at night is to meditate on the children in their class. I think this practice is absolutely vital as a Waldorf homeschooling parent. In the discussion write-up following Dr. Helmut von Kugelgen’s article “How Can We Find A Connection to The World of the Angels?” in the blue [...]
WARMTH: Day Number 12 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Can you all believe we up to Day Number 12? I can’t believe it either! Thank you so much to all of my readers for keeping up with this series. This blog had almost 19,000 hits last month, so I know there are many of you out there reading along and I want you to [...]
Day Number Eleven of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a topic near and dear to my heart: making your home work for you. This whole notion of “What makes a home a home?” is profoundly interesting to me! This probably has more to do with the “intangibles”: the way a home feels when you walk into it. Is there warmth, joy, laughter, [...]
The Seven and Eight Year Old: Realistic Expectations: Last Installment of Day Number 10 of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the third and final installment of “Day Number 10” of our series “20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother”. I just wanted to briefly cover the seven and eight year olds. These are ages that are often seen as “older” in our society, and I am here to tell you these ages [...]
More Realistic Expectations: Day Number Ten of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
AGE FIVE: Often referred to as a “Golden Age” in development with five-and-a-half being a time of disequilibrium according to traditional childhood development texts. Five is the average age to be able to: Carry an open container without spilling Go to the toilet by themselves with no accidents Use a towel to dry themselves after [...]
Realistic Expectations: Day Number Ten of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Parenting, The Four Year Old, The Three Year Old, gentle discipline, tagged Children under age 7, Kindergarten, no spanking, Parenting, the four year old on September 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last post we addressed being able to set calm limits. Part of that calmness comes from knowing what are realistic expectations for each age. This by itself could be a small book, but let’s point out a few highlights for age three up through age eight in this three-part post! AGE THREE: Three is very, [...]
