Category Archives: Consensual Living

Seeking harmony with each family member

• When Things Go Wrong #2 – Identifying Triggers

  Amy explores three ways to identify triggers so you can transform how you respond in certain situations.  MORE

• I’m Not Raising Corporate America

  I don’t run my family by Corporate America’s values — I’m raising my children.  MORE

• A Necessary Season: Potty Learning as a Step in the Journey

  Potty learning in Laura’s home was an experience that became an unexpected joy in her season of mothering.  MORE

• What Makes the Perfect Parent?

  Mrs. Green reflects on camp follow and camp no-follow when it comes to our parents’ influence.  MORE

• Partner Support for Breastfeeding

  Adrienne shares some tips to help partners of nursing moms to be supportive and helpful throughout the nursing relationship.  MORE

• Celebrating Halloween With Less Consumerism

  Trick-or-treating is not the sole focus of Halloween for our family. Instead, we seek multiple ways to encourage natural, local, fall-themed fun.  MORE

• The Message Underneath His Words

  “I need you to help me,” he was complaining, as usual, even as he was putting pieces of the puzzle together with no hesitation. This time, however, I really heard the message underneath his words. It wasn’t a message about helplessness, but about connection.  MORE

• Gentle Discipline and the Strong-Willed Child

  Embrace your child for who he is, including the strength and determination that are a beautiful, if occasionally inconvenient, part of his character. As that strong will grows and is guided by love, mutual respect, collaboration and shared wisdom, your child will change the world.  MORE

• The Price of Trust

  Our society has conditioned us to consider the convenience of other adults above the well-being of children and take the side of the teacher, doctor, dentist, when there is a conflict. I am so glad this time I chose to listen to my daughter.  MORE

• When Children Don’t Listen

  When we stop to examine why it is that we want our children to do what we say, we’ll find there are varied reasons.  MORE

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