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Going with the Flow: Boundaries and Non-Coercive Parenting

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Kids need boundaries. I certainly believe this. Or rather, I believe that all humans need a sense of safe space. We all need to be able to move about in our worlds with a feeling of security, a feeling that we know what the rules are. However, we also need to be able to push and shape those rules as well. How much push you allow and how tight your rules are happen to be two of the defining forces in parenting. I consider myself to be a middle-of-the-road parent when it comes to rules, but I suspect that many … Continue reading →

Who Are Your Preschool Parenting Gurus?

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Tomorrow I get to go to a workshop by Beverly Bos, one of the gurus of early childhood education. Not only will this be useful for my work and my writing, I hope that it will be useful for my parenting too. She is speaking about the importance of childhood play. Who are your parenting gurus? Our local Gordon Neufeld is one of mine. He has written the book called Hold On To Your Kids, a guide to staying attached to your children no matter what. In a culture where we encourage our children to be independent from birth, staying … Continue reading →

To Share or Not to Share

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Sharing is important, right? Well, yes. When you bring some goodies for people at the office or the playgroup, that is important. However, imagine this. You’re at the office and someone brings in a doughnut. It’s one of the doughnuts that is filled with jam. Delicious! You decide that you would really, really like it, so you reach out and grab it from the surprised office worker’s mouth. You get it! Excellent. You start to eat it, when your fellow worker turns around, slaps you, and nabs the doughnut back. You begin to cry. Just then your boss walks in, … Continue reading →