Purejoy Parenting

Looking at our judgments and perceptions, in relation, to our children’s behavior is a great place to see how difficult it is to accept what is.  Because of our conditioning and our deep beliefs, we have ideas of “how” our children should behave.  A lot of these perceptions are rooted in “what will other people [...]

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As a young child, I vividly remember going to the beach.   It was a place where all my troubles dropped away and I felt connected to my sister in a way that didn’t happen at home.  We would search, for hours, for shells to take back and share with all our friends.  Each one, [...]

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I have a very strong need to be “heard”. When I was growing up we called my dad the “deaf ear”. When you were talking with him about something he didn’t like or wasn’t interested in he would actually sit there and act like he didn’t hear you. I could talk till I was blue [...]

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The number one key in love-based parenting is seeing your relationship with your child as the priority. Our children are able to read our energetic messages that we are sending them more than our words. How many times have you been calm and collective, on the outside and boiling on the inside in response to [...]

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Example: My daughter had some friends over for a sleep-over and she was being very controlling about turning the light off, the music they played and who slept where. Her need to control, is a trigger for me and I began to try and get her to stop. I moved out of a “loving” state [...]

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Today we will be talking about what Joy-Based Parenting is. To do this we must fist define the word love in the context we will be using. We often think of love, for our child, as “caring” for them but in the dictionary care, the noun, is defined as “a state of mind in which [...]

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