Category Archives: Balance

Striving for balance in work and family life

• Self Care and the Introvert

  Setting aside her previous thoughts on self-care, Laura discovered that alone time was very healthy for her heart. A parent at peace with her needs is a parent who can be best version of themselves and therefore the fullest version of a parent for their children.  MORE

• The More Things Change …

  I didn’t know that the jogging stroller would be a symbol not of how much I have changed as a parent, but of how much I am still very much myself.  MORE

• Wordless Wednesday: Cookout

  This week we asked you to share cookouts with us. Read more about Striving for Balance in Your Personal and Family Life on our resource page. Link up!  MORE

• 12 Essential Items for Pumping Mamas

  It is never fun to be caught unprepared when it is time to pump, and sometimes thinking through everything you may need is too difficult when you have a little one in your arms. Three NPN volunteers share a simple checklist to refer to when packing your pumping kit.  MORE

• Calling for Submissions for the July 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning About Diversity

  Diversity surrounds us — our family make-ups are unique, our abilities and goals differ from our friends, we have different standards of living and sets of beliefs … both across our communities and around the world. How do you teach your children to embrace and respect diversity? Tell us by July 2!  MORE

• Doing It Right: What I Knew Before I Had Kids

  Before I had children I knew, to the marrow of my bones, that I would do it right. And then pregnancy came. And there were so many choices. And so many variables outside of my control. Read more about what Lucy has learned since becoming a mother.  MORE

• The Two Minds of Parenting

  I practice mindfulness. I breathe slowly and stay in the moment. I remind myself of the very real work that I am doing, and I remind myself too that the lack of value ascribed by society to this “woman’s work” does not mean that it is not, in fact, valuable.  MORE

• Birthing and Parenting Abroad

  Lyndsay shares a few tips and tricks to birthing and parenting naturally while living in a different country.  MORE

• Wordless Wednesday: Pampering

  This week we asked you to share pampering with us. Read more about striving for balance in family life on our resource page. Link up!  MORE

• At-Home Exercise: Using My Stairs for Strength

  Amy of Presence Parenting shares a few ways she is using a simple structure in her home for greater health.  MORE

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