Q: Looking for experience and advice helping my daughter, Maya (5.5), through her frustration in learning new skills. We usually wait for her to ask to learn to do something, especially physical skills (ride a scooter, do a somersault, etc.) and shoe tying wasn’t really on our radar because her two favorite pairs of shoesContinue reading “Helping Your Child Through Shoe-Tying…and Life”
Category Archives: parenting style
10 Thoughts on Bringing Mindfulness Into Your Home
Sharing mindfulness with your children and watch the ripple effects in both of your lives.
Archaeology of Parenting: Unearthing Yourself
Your essence is the most authentic, honest, real version of you. Over years of development it often gets built over with other’s stories of who you are (or who they want/need you to be)–good or bad–but not essential truths of who you are on the most elemental level. Eroding those stories we were told were your identity is a difficult but essential part of raising one’s own conscious awareness.
Surviving the Abyss of Motherhood
Being a new mom will deplete your senses, make you feel like a failure, and even miss your ‘old’ life…but there is perfection in your distress.
Confronting Independence
Everyone grows up with some level of attachment to our parents. In order to be able to have a healthy attachment to your child-which has multitudes of short term and long term health benefits to you both, one must be able to honestly assess their own emotional bond to their parents. One must ask, how did my parents do at keeping me safe, seen, secure and soothed?
How Automatic Thoughts Almost Ruined the Day
By noticing negative automatic thoughts one parent was able to change the outcome of a family day on the slopes.
Consciously Giving Our First Allowance
Money is personal because it is a tangible reflection of the values with which you were raised. How will you approach this vulnerable topic at home?
Conscious Grandparenting: An Interview
A parents job is never really over and how you approach those moments of connection, even with your adult children, really makes a difference. This interview explores one Conscious grandmothers journey to become more awakened.
Rethink Discipline
Parent educator, Emily Rittenberg, looks at how to create effective discipline at home through the lense of positive discipline and conscious parenting.
Rotate the Blame
Even if your children are the best of friends they will inevitably argue fight and blame each other at times. Even the best parent doesn’t always know who is telling the truth and who did what. So what do you do in this situation? Blame the oldest? Blame the youngest? You can probably justify each. AccordingContinue reading “Rotate the Blame”
Emily Rittenberg, Licensed Mental Health Counselor 