Meeting your baby for the very first time :)

Do you recall the very first time you have seen your baby? ... the first time you looked into your baby's eyes.  Can you recall the overwhelming feeling of love and affection you have felt in your entire being?  

If you can remember and recall that wonderful moment, at least once a day, your parenting will improve immediately and naturally :)

With my best, 

Sedef

Fall is calling the summer is over...

We just came back from our summer vacation.  I unfortunately witnessed a very disturbing scene between a mother and her child, during my vacation.  

For that child and for all our children, I would like to excerpt dear Pam Leo's words:

"Hitting is violence...   

The only "lessons" hitting can teach children are to hit and to fear and distrust  those who hit them.

It is not nice to hit people; children are people.

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Hitting children hurts their bodies, hearts, and minds.  Instead of sending the message that their behavior was bad, being hit causes the children to believe that they are bad."

pages 130-1, "Connection Parenting" by Pam Leo, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc.

Living Life To The Full Extent!

Why are we sooo afraid of making mistakes?  I am only talking about those little mistakes that don't hurt anyone but make us look silly.  Why do we need to look so perfect?  

Are being exposed and being vulnerable so hard?  

Interestingly at those moments of great vulnerability we open our hearts 100%!  And start living life to the full extent.

Our children learn more by modeling us than any other educational modality.  So what kinds of models are we providing for our kids?  

Do we really want them to watch life like a movie from the sidelines?  Or do we like it better to see our kids live life to the full extent, realizing their existence from head to toe?  Whatever we want for our children in this lifetime, we should practice modeling that behavior right now!  

It is all in the now but never later...