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What Is Respectful Parenting?
  • November 11, 2016
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What Is Respectful Parenting?

Respectful Parenting. I use that term a lot! It feels like the most accurate way to describe what we do. The overarching […]

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Why you should ALWAYS comfort a child – no matter why they’re crying
  • January 6, 2016
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Why you should ALWAYS comfort a child – no matter why they’re crying

“Don’t stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go […]

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You Can’t Force Independence
  • September 14, 2015
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You Can’t Force Independence

I imagined this day. My 7-year-old sleeps all night. My 5-year-old does too. Miraculously they learnt to do it all on their […]

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Everyday Parenting: Acknowledging Their Wants
  • September 9, 2015
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Everyday Parenting: Acknowledging Their Wants

This post is part of a series documenting everyday respectful parenting moments. Reading real life parenting examples inspires me. I also find […]

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Children Need to See Breastfeeding
  • August 5, 2015
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Children Need to See Breastfeeding

If you’ve ever come across an online discussion about breastfeeding then you know it can be a controversial topic! Strange I know. […]

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Gentle parenting isn’t meant to be easy
  • January 15, 2015
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Gentle parenting isn’t meant to be easy

I don’t know where this idea came from that gentle parenting was supposed to be ‘easy’. That we’ve got it all figured […]

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We recently went on an excursion where the kids got to look at plankton under the microscope, and they really enjoyed it. So today, for Biodiversity Day, we decided to recreate it at home.

We also chatted about biodiversity and all the things we could see while we collected the water. And then got a fright when we spotted a red-bellied black snake too, eek!

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