BOUNDARIES…
Parenting Your Child Ages 1-5: Setting Boundaries – Saturday July 18th, 10am-12:30pm
If you cannot make it to the Saturday class I’m also offering the very same class in the evening on Thursday July 23rd, 7pm-9:30pm, $45/person. Please email me (carrie@earlyparenting.com) if that is a better option for you. If neither work, let me know and [...]
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I posted this over a year ago but I’ve recently moved my site so I’m reposting it here.
Bernadette asked me how I would define “conscious parenting.” Here’s my answer…
I would say that it’s definitely more a way of being than any sort of method or style of parenting. It’s about being awake and [...]
What if early parenting is much more about wearing your “therapist” hat than it is about wearing your “educator” hat?
The work of early parenting is to create a container for the child’s emotional experiences. Through that, the child learns how to flow with all the feelings that naturally arise as a result of learning and [...]
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Carrie will be representing Slow Family Living this week, Thursday, May 28th on the Today Show’s Fourth Hour with Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotb. Tune in in your area on NBC television.
We talk of the need to be present.
In the moment.
And in this one. And this one. And this one.
Because each one informs the next.
So really, where can we possibly be but where we are right now?
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Bern, here are some simple and very effective ways to slow things down when you are feeling emotionally and physically out of balance. It takes some practice but once you are in the habit of taking a few moments to resource yourself it becomes second nature. One way to start incorporating them into daily life [...]
I’ve been striving lately to slow down our busy household of six people. It takes a conscious effort what with clubs and teams and school and play and beautiful spring weather that makes us just want to go, go, go. But I also know that when we do go, go, go, we are cranky, cranky, [...]
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Remember to be where you are.
Allow yourself to be with the one you’re with.
Being present with each person, each task, each place, each mood, will give us the connection we all need.
