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Spiritual Parenting in a New Age {guest post}

Spiritual Parenting in a New Age {guest post}

by smaclaughlin | Aug 6, 2019 | balance, hope for the future, motherhood, patience

Meet educator, mom, and wise spiritual teacher, Rachel Horton White. I sure can relate to her description of how her patience gets tested! I love how she gives it a capital “P” and names it—along with Selflessness and Sacrifice—all Life Lessons...

Parenting is Hard Work!

by smaclaughlin | Aug 29, 2014 | advocacy for children, developmental expectations, emotional intelligence, mindful parenting, modeling, parenting, parenting style, patience, perspective, self-care

When I was a new mom who shared my birth story with anyone who wanted to hear it, I quipped, “They don’t call it labor for nothing!” Even if you didn’t personally give birth to your children, the labor involved is still intense. The hard work,...

Helping Your Child Sleep Well, So You Can Parent Well—Part One {Guest Post}

by Sarah MacLaughlin | Mar 30, 2014 | naps, parenting style, patience, sleep

Please enjoy this guest post from Jessica Begley. Jessica is holds a Master’s degree in public health, and is an Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and Certified Lactation Counselor. She is the founder of The Baby Sleep Geek and is passionate about helping wee...

Rethinking Fear

by Sarah MacLaughlin | Dec 14, 2012 | brain development, connection parenting, emotional intelligence, fear, mindful parenting, modeling, patience

What role does fear play in parenting? Primitive, biological, and extremely useful, fear is not something I want to discount, but I do think it deserves close examination. Fear is sometimes necessary for survival, but—here the kicker—not usually. The fear response in...

Avoiding Shame and Blame

by Sarah MacLaughlin | Jul 11, 2012 | advocacy for children, blog tour, communication, connection parenting, emotional intelligence, patience, what not to say, what to say

How to Avoid Shame and Blame Excerpted and adapted from What Not to Say: Tools for Talking with Young Children Sometimes adults don’t mean to use shame and blame in their interactions with children—these approaches can sneak in when we are least expecting it....

Emotional Rescue

by Sarah MacLaughlin | Jul 6, 2012 | blog tour, communication, connection parenting, developmental expectations, discipline, emotional intelligence, patience, what not to say, what to say

Yes, I’m stealing The Stones’ song title, though I could have said Emotional Literacy, or Emotional Intelligence too. Emotions are so misunderstood. They have such a bad rap in our relatively stoic and repressed culture. My highest hope is a collective of human beings...
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