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Joy Based Parenting: The Battle of Wills

I will get you to listen to me…..NO!
I will get you to wash your hair…..NO!
I will get you to eat your greens….NO!
Any of these sound familiar?
Can you see a pattern here?
The more willful I get the more I
engage my daughter’s willfulness
and the battle begins.
The battlefield can be any of the above issues and once [...]

Joy Based Parenting: What do I know?

Parents often ask me if I can promise them their children will turn out
ok if they choose to parent the Purejoy way. I can honestly look at
them and say, I have no idea. All I know is I can never know how my
daughter will turn out. If only I had that crystal [...]

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 [...]

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