Rebuilding Connection with Your Child: 12 Ideas
12 practical ways you can reconnect with your child.
Tag: control
Grocery Store Meltdown
Today is birthday week at our house. My daughter, now 2, was born on April 6th. Today is my eldest son’s birthday, he is now 6 and tomorrow, April 9th my second son turns 4. Needless to say, birthday week is a crazy one around here. I try to make each child’s birthday special for […]
Open House
I can understand why people find it so stressful to move. My inner perfectionist has been awakened by the need to have the house looking spotless for prospective buyers. We have decided to list our house ourselves for a short time to try and sell it to someone who is like minded. As a result, […]
Weed Whacking
How may things are needlessly judged as weeds? What makes some things less worthy to be considered as the indicators of a need? Isn’t it the weeds that show us where we need to plant more of what we do desire? But our culture is expert at sussing out ‘weeds.’ The trouble is that sometimes […]
How to Step Into the Darkness
We are blessed to live in Canada, with four seasons. The season of autumn signals the beginning of turning inward. A time for dreaming and planning while cozy indoors for the winter months. But it doesn’t seem so enticing as the days are growing shorter and we are losing the time in daylight to wrap […]
Needing a Break ≠ Failure
We had a crazy hour around lunchtime yesterday. Over the summer we have fallen out of the rhythm of tidying up before lunch and dinner, which has put us right back into power struggles over the issue as we try to reestablish our routine. The children did not want to begin tidy-up time, despite several […]
Pushed and Pulled by Change
Pushed or pulled, either way I move. Does it matter what force caused the change when the end result is movement? How comfortable it seems to remain still. But like water, if I’m not circulating, flowing, moving, I will stagnate. Change is inevitable. It is what sustains life. Without embracing adaptation, I might as well […]
Top 10 Permaculture Parenting Tips
Catch and Store Energy, Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Cultivate Diversity, Earth Care, Fair Share, Food, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Life Choices, Make No Waste, Maximize the Edges, Observe and Interact, Obtain a Yield, Parenting, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture for Children, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Use and Value Gifts from Nature
When I think about what it means to me to be a ‘Permaculture Parent’ I feel that it really is defined by my approach to life. Looking for ways to live more in line with the Permaculture principles is a way of approaching life. When I change, those around me change. When I learn, those […]
Should Children Do Chores?
I was having a conversation with a friend last weekend about how to get our children to help us with chores. We were questioning how to balance the workload of mothering with giving the children all they need besides a tidy home. I wish I could accomplish everything myself with ease, then this would not […]
Relinquishing Control
Last night we were reflecting on our gardens, how when we tried to plant in certain cover crops, we ended up not being successful. When we were able to give up on trying to control what came up, we ended up with lambs quarters, plantain, and dandelion. These were the plants the soil needed to […]
