The process of parenting is the delivery mechanism for culture. Not good/bad, right/wrong... just the way it is. How mindful are we - as parents and parental surrogates - of the power of our influence to shape reality for developing, young minds? How directed are we, in that process, to ensure compliance rather than exploration and discovery? Consider ... Continue Reading >>
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Our Children
Rather than embed submission to authority, were we to engender in our children a deep curiosity about themselves and their potential, the world would change profoundly in a single generation. ... Continue Reading >>
Parenting: What it takes to let go….
A conversation for the time we’re in! In this moment, the trance of the last 100 years is deeply disturbed. The next steps we take will determine if we are entrained into a new trance… or if we give our children what they need to create a future outside of trance. It really is up to us! ============================ "My son is part of this world ... Continue Reading >>
Parenting: The Power of Authentic Self
Join Naomi Irons and her guest - Anne Bérubé - in a potent exploration of the process of parenting; and a revelation of where the power lies to embrace and open potential for our children. As our turbulent times continue to expand, it is not enough to teach our children the basics - we must introduce them to their innate capacity to trust the truth of ... Continue Reading >>
Naomi Irons: Conscious parenting demands conscious parents
A conversation for the time we're in! In this moment, the trance of the last 100 years is deeply disturbed. The next steps we take will determine if we are entrained into a new trance... or if we awaken to a life outside of trance. It really is up to us. ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Cherishing After Divorce
We get divorced for a reason. If we were not able to work out our differences together, not likely that we’ll be able to work them out through our children! And yet, how many of us turn away from owning our own internal states; turn away from taking responsibility for our inner world and corresponding outer turmoil, allowing our children to be lost to the ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Children and Potential
One thing I’ve learned over more than 25 years of working with others - and from being a Mom,myself - is that we can be very touchy about our kids! Not so much because it’s really about any particular child but much more because as parents, we so strongly identify ourselves by who our children have become. Are my kids well-behaved, doing well in school, ... Continue Reading >>
Unschooling : podcast with Naomi Irons & Angela Arbuckle
Another compelling conversation, sourced through Deb Ozarko and her life-enhancing podcast, Unplug! Naomi Irons and Angela Arbuckle bring the truth of their own experience, to be shared into yours. Beyond philosophy and diving deeply into the practicality, Angela and Naomi are living expressions of the power that comes from being wiling to see what you ... Continue Reading >>
Bullying
I read Tanya's posting and had to move away from it. As I 'heard' the small voice of her son, torrents of memories flooded back into my awareness of a time, not-so-long-ago, when her voice would have been my own. Although the difference would have been in my son being the one in the schoolyard being harassed/bullied/harmed, both would have been victims. I ... Continue Reading >>