Joy Based Parenting: Opening to Love

Our children come into this world pure and awake. This is why we feel in awe when we see a newborn baby. By the time we are adults, we are defended and protective and living out of a different story of ourselves. We have forgotten that we too, at our core, are [...]

Joy Based Parenting: I want what I want and I want it now!

Experiencing the power of our child’s “wants” can trigger our deep seated beliefs about the “rightness or wrongness” of wanting what we want and wanting it now.
Every time we go to Target, my daughter is glued to the dollar bin.  All of her desires come up and making a decision becomes almost impossible.  I’m often [...]