Parenting & Early Childhood

When children are at their most difficult and challenging situations arise, how can we react in a way that reflects our family values and expectations? Often, when children push our buttons, we find ourselves reacting in ways that are far from our principles, often further inflaming a situation.

Bragging rights and bumper stickers are some of the social forces fueling todays parenting behaviorand, as a result, even well-intentioned parents are behaving badly.

The Peaceful Home approach to parenting during a pandemic.

It can be hard to fit "green living" in with the necessities of modern parenting: you can do 100 things right, but still the trappings of 21st-century life—the waste, the consumerism, the plastic junk—invariably find their way home. So how can you raise kind, balanced, responsible kids, all while doing it sustainably?

A philosopher and mother mines classic Daoist texts of Chinese philosophy for wisdom relevant to todays parents.