Parenting > Family Relationships

In this book, Rebecca Thompson offers solutions that go beyond trying to change behaviors and are based on what truly matters: Building connected, trusting family relationships and bonds that can weather any situation. Her approach is grounded in science and research and uses straightforward language and examples. As parents, we have a steady diet of conflicting information coming at us from all directions. The long list of essential dos and don'ts has most of us spinning our wheels in indecision, not knowing what we're actually supposed to do. We follow parenting advice from "experts" even if it doesn't feel right because we aren't sure what else to do. Consciously Parenting is ab ...

If you had to write a fantastic story about a fascinating character who has superhero powers, which details would you include? The idea of this project started a few years ago on Facebook when people would engage in a 30 Days of Thanks project starting in November and carrying on thru Thanksgiving. They’d post something once per day that they were thankful for, like their family or their friends or their job or even their car. Normally, they'd quit after a couple days. Obviously, I didn't. One of my ideas was “30 Days of Dad”; an entire month filled with stories about my father, a former Navy SEAL in Vietnam who raised his family in Texas in peace, far from the riverbanks of the s ...

Fostering Foster is the story of a little boy caught up in the foster care system; all he wants in life is to be loved. His biggest desire is to find a loving family that will continue to love him unconditionally. Come on this journey as we follow Foster through this look of disappointment at times, love, and sharing lots of exciting new adventures. Did you know? • There are close to 56,000 children in the foster care system in California. • Just over half – 51 percent – of all foster youth graduate high school. • Food for thought: There are not enough guardians – foster parents - in America. Let’s change that, folks. Please consider adding a child in need to your wo ...

Nurturing our relationship with our children is the heart and soul of consciously parenting. Nurturing relationships, once they are established, is really an art. It is about remembering that our children’s need for connection is a primary factor in most of their behavior. It is about recognizing that, in every parenting situation, we have choices about how we respond to our children and their behaviors. It is about seeing every parenting situation as an opportunity to create connection or disconnection. It is about looking at our everyday parenting situations and beginning to see how we can choose connection. It is also about being able to admit when something didn’t go as planned, to f ...