A mother’s intuition

fabiogis50 / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA One of the skills essential to conscious parenting is learning to tune in to your intuitive guidance system ( or otherwise known as mother’s intuition, your sixth sense, your gut instinct, etc.).  And by learning (or should I say honing) that skill, we can better help our children learn […]

Surgery to prevent bullying?

  It’s time for a change. This morning, I was interviewed on San Diego’s channel 6 news about a recent CNN story about a 14 year old girl who was awarded a $40,000 plastic surgery by a charity because she was being bullied about her ears. Discussions around the Internet on this topic have offered […]

Do you know your love language?

You may have heard of the term “love language,” but do you really know what yours is?  Your spouse’s?  Your child’s? Part of being a conscious parent, is understanding these important differences in our loved ones, AND ourselves.  The more we can learn about ourselves, the more we can share that with the people who […]

Enough about the Time Magazine cover photo, what about the actual article?

Now that the actual Time Magazine article is out on newsstands, I wanted to share my perspective on the article, and not only about the cover. And I would love to hear yours. To sum it up, I felt as though the article itself was an unfair representation of both Attachment Parenting, and Dr. Sears. […]

Study finds breastfed babies are “more challenging” …. Really????

Saw this article on the Huffington Post today about a study that “proves” that breastfed babies are “more challenging” than bottlefed  babies. Really??? In any case, I couldn’t resist chiming in on the conversation. Here is my brief response (which could easily have been a mini-dissertation with how much I wanted to share) …..but I […]

Children do as you DO, not what you SAY

I find it fascinating how often a parent will tell their child something, but then turn around and do the very same thing they are telling their child not to do.  I find myself falling into this same trap on occasion and try to catch myself when I do that. I watched a mom at […]