We have fun with our food in our house. One of the girls favorite activities is to make pasta, rainbow pasta! It is like pasta play-doh that you can EAT! The blend their colors, use cookie cutters to make shapes or keep it simple with the spaghetti pasta maker. Making rainbow spaghetti becomes a …
Natural Parenting
They DO Listen!
As a parent, do you ever feel like your words somehow go in one ear and out the other when you speak to you children? They look at you *BLINK BLINK BLINK* like you are speaking some Alien Language? Then, one day, all of a sudden, they quote you, appropriately to someone else. Huh? Did they just say …
A Mama’s NEW Obsession
It is almost back to school time and this mama has an obsession: Lunchboxes!! This Artsy Foodie Mama is trying hard to figure out how to feed Mina for lunch and pack it. Mina is like me: she is a picker and likes lots of little things to choose and munch from. The lunchboxes out there make my …
Cherries, Pits, and Choices
This morning I took my coffee outside with some fresh cherries to enjoy in the garden. All of a sudden I had a Forrest Gump moment as I thought: Life is like a bowl of cherries. Sometimes its sweet and sometimes its the pits! It's all about perspective. You can't have one without the other, so …
Impact
How can we, as parents, positively Impact our children and Empower them? I have been grappling with this question over the past few months and I have come to this conclusion: We need to Listen to them. When we utilize Active and Empathetic Listening in our conversations with our children, we show …