Transformation. It’s a word we hear all the time in workshops, self-help books and spiritually-minded circles. Yet, unless we’ve experienced severe…

Giving up control is one of the hardest parenting traps for me to get out of. Growing up in a tumultuous and unstable household, tightly controlling…

I experienced a deeply painful turning point in my life this past summer. Before that, I definitely fell into the parenting pitfall of coddling my young daughter…

Love and fear cannot exist in the same moment. This core premise that underpins Conscious Parenting’s Myth #5…

This morning as I was helping my four-year-old daughter, Lexi, get ready for school, she asked: “Where’s daddy? Why isn’t he taking me to school?”

How would you answer this question: “Is your child good or bad?” “When are they good?” “When are they bad?”

I have what conventional parenting experts call a “strong willed child.” My daughter’s propensity for…

What I remember from my pre-school/kindergarten years is creating dirt cakes decorated with dandelions and tacos out of giant leaves…

Who thought that when schools started shutting down in March for COVID that we would still be dealing with it in fall?

If we had been taught in childhood, by our parents and teachers, to honor the activities and interests that naturally ignited our curiosity…

Cooped up at home trying to balance work and childcare, I’ve found my fuse short, anxiety and frustration lurking just below the surface of calm capability…

Like many of you who are riding out the coronavirus pandemic with little ones at home, I have been challenged to keep my three-year-old occupied…

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to get up close and personal with our children’s development and education…

As parents, the changes we go through with our kids can be at the top of the list of things that produce anxiety…

Yesterday, my now-grown child had to make a big decision about whether to move to Minneapolis or not…

When I decided to finally date again after my divorce, I vowed that I would only date men who had been through divorce…

Some of the best advice I was ever given as a young person that I wished I had gotten from my parents was, when it comes to the heart, “get annihilated.”

I was sitting on a smooth, warm rock, by the side of a Colorado stream that carved through a small canyon near my home…

The beauty of non-attachment is that it lands us in the present moment and ignites a vibrancy that’s not possible when we’re gunning – or manipulating…

There has been much research done that proves open-ended play does wonders for kids intellectual and emotional development…