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 [...]
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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 »
More Realistic Expectations: Day Number Ten of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2009 | 7 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 a bath
May [...]
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 | 3 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, very [...]
Day Number Nine of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The posts in this series regarding rest and sleep brought up the issues of learning how to set boundaries calmly. This is actually coming up quite a bit in my personal existence as many of my friends seem to be having their second child and are dealing with how to set limits calmly and patiently [...]
Nature: Day Number Eight of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Getting children outside is a key part of daily rhythm. In a few of the previous posts, I mentioned that I bank on a extraordinary amount of outside time for small children under the age of 7. Young children need these sensory experiences of being in their bodies, pushing, pulling, tugging, lugging, digging, moving, [...]
Rhythm: Day Number Seven of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I am on the Mothering Community Forums. What I see in some of the threads over there is that mothers who want to homeschool recognize that they have a “restless” toddler (ie, the 18 to 24 month-old) whom they think needs more stimulation – and then they try to channel that into a curriculum [...]
Day Number Six of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Sleep and rest are extremely important cornerstones of Waldorf parenting and education, and one area that it seems many attachment parents struggle with. Let’s take a closer look at sleep today and see if we can improve things for all members of the household!
First of all, a Waldorf perspective is that a small child may [...]
Day Number Five of 20 Days Toward Being A More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are already at Day Number Five! I can’t believe it!
Our focus today is to TAKE TIME FOR OURSELVES. Make yourself the priority you deserve to be!
I see so many mothers who are feeling burned out at best and miserable at worst. They are wearing so many hats (see this post here: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2009/08/22/how-do-i-take-off-one-of-these-hats/ [...]
Day Number Four of 20 Days Toward Being a More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(This post is directed toward day-to-day marital issues, not marital issues where physical or emotional abuse is taking place.)
Yes, we are back to one of my favorite soapbox issues: your relationship with your spouse, partner or significant other (and to my single mommies, I am sorry that this post today probably won’t have a lot [...]
Day Number Three of 20 Days Toward Being a More Mindful Mother
Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today’s focus is on being POSITIVE! This is a very important trait to pass on to your children – did you know that negativity can be “inherited” by your children? They really do model your outlook on life!
There can be PHYSICAL reasons and PSYCHOLOGICAL reasons for not being positive – I urge you to talk [...]
