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9 years of parenting and I'm still learning | alt ed + alt med | tea cures most ills đź«– sacred families
Phoenix, AZ
Joined January 2013
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. -Khalil Gibran.
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the kids’ obstacle course they’ve set up across the entire house includes a section where the obstacle is to pick up babies and shush them to sleep before continuing on. real life training.
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I’m prepping for back to school like I prep for postpartum with freezer breakfasts. i tried a chocolate pyrex pancake recipe and the kids loved it so much they had it with ice cream for dessert. it will be added to the rotation.
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RT @winter___fall: the world might get healed if a critical mass of people start smiling at everyone on the sidewalk without checking to se….
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RT @manuelpl01: Montessori on our relationship with kids: "We are the guides for these travelers making their entrance into the intellectua….
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the 3yo bounced out of bed and gathered a bowl of rice for her makeshift sensory table. she made oatmeal for breakfast, cut up some veggies for later and washed the dishes. domestic bliss and it’s only 9am.
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i am so grateful for food prep. soaking beans in kombu, quinoa and raw almonds in water. soaking leaves to make purple tea. soaking bones in hot water to make bone broth. a kitchen is a place of magical transformation.
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I always think an interesting cultural divide is when Indians here lament about having children without “help” and what they mean is back home you can have 3-4 house servants of some sort and here all we have are machines.
She’s right here, at least, on the issue of childrearing being incredibly difficult. Theodore Dalrymple said that what made the quality of life in Rhodesia the highest in the world was not material circumstances, which were obviously more prosperous and advanced in America and
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this has been my observation as well. the school system is a chesterton’s fence. it’s not great, bad even, and if you are a parent contemplating options for your child’s education you are likely qualified to homeschool, but we must have the theory of mind to understand others do.
Possibly my most unpopular observation. The most uneducated adults I encounter in my adult literacy program—and there is no comparison, it is a vast gulf—grew up in countries where children are not required to go to school. The American SPED program is terrible: kids relegated.
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I love my bed and my home and my yard and my cat and my dog and I’m never going on another adventure again. the goal of vacation is to come home and love your regular life more, right?.
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RT @BonesawMD: I won’t pretend to understand the mechanics of this:. but it is obvious that opening up your hips and improving your flexibi….
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ayurvedic medicine has been teaching some form of this for thousands of years. always happy to see it come around in a new form
The next nutrition trend no one is paying attention to is chrononutrition. Aligning your meals with your circadian biology is massively underrated.
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RT @MatjazLeonardis: I love this letter because it’s the only piece of writing I’ve seen that acknowledges being oneself is a constant batt….
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apparently the previous owner of this second-hand book was not happy with the school system
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yeah. what is the cause of this? have the kids actually changed, or is it our perceptions that have changed?. atp i’d trust my own 9yo over the 12yo down the street.
@OrthodoxTao Used to be you could trust a 14 year old to babysit and now most 14 year olds still seem to need babysitters themselves.
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This is how I understand and experience reality. By intentionally choosing quality thoughts, we can influence our perception and actions, and ultimately our physical reality as well as the subjective quality our own life. As we know this process begins in childhood, when the.
Sounds woo, but a big shift occurs when you realise the following:. If someone were to tell you to think of blue cars today, not only do you recognise them more, but your thought and emotional intensity that is imbued into the thought will literally generate more blue cars in.
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hmm. russian olive trees are invasive across the country. they’ve made hiking into the woods difficult in michigan by densely covering the sunlit openings and they’re activity managing them in montana.
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no coffee, no alcohol. what ritual activity are they doing that gives them an excuse to sit around and chat?. certainly they aren’t drinking tea either.
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