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You Shall Go Out with Joy: March 2013
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Friday, March 8, 2013. Quick Takes (volume 16). For my New Year's Resolution, I decided to write down one memory a day in a diary. I haven't been very good at memory-keeping in general recently (obviously not here, but not in other ways either- I've hardly even been taking pictures! You can see where this is going, right? Writing down memories, even if not every day, and I will. Be so glad that I did in years to come. So, glass half full, right? Gus i...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: What is Natural Parenting?
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? What is Natural Parenting? Natural Parenting, in a sentence, is the practice of "living and parenting responsively and consciously.". Of course, being me, why would I want to write one sentence when I could say the same thing in a hundred! So please join me in this series in which I explore the ways in which our family currently lives out the various practices that make up this philosophy. The Practices of Natural Parenting. From the NPN website.
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: Quick Takes (volume 16)
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Friday, March 8, 2013. Quick Takes (volume 16). For my New Year's Resolution, I decided to write down one memory a day in a diary. I haven't been very good at memory-keeping in general recently (obviously not here, but not in other ways either- I've hardly even been taking pictures! You can see where this is going, right? Writing down memories, even if not every day, and I will. Be so glad that I did in years to come. So, glass half full, right? Gus i...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: A Non-Craft
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Friday, November 2, 2012. I love the idea of crafts, but I have never been very good at transforming ideas into action. So I do not do crafts with Gus nearly as much as I would like. (I think I need to get a book. I don't really come up with my own ideas, and the internet is generally too overwhelming for this sort of thing! However, I did see this. On Pinterest the other week and thought it was easy enough that even I could do it! Gus with his bus.
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: May 2012
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Friday, May 11, 2012. What is Natural Parenting: Preparing for Birth. This is one in a series of posts about what Natural Parenting looks like in our family. See the rest of the series here. Patron of expectant mothers. On the personal side, I had been following various blogs on natural birthing topics for several years. Favourites include Stand and Deliver. And Birthing Beautiful Ideas. I was actually reading Rixa’s dissertation. While I was planning...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: February 2013
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Saturday, February 16, 2013. Quick Takes (volume 15). Two of my favourite quotations from Gus during our potty learning adventure:. Big boys do not. As Jon is dressing Gus after Gus had an accident and did not want to sit on the potty) "I'm going to pee in the black trousers next." And sure enough, he peed in them less than five minutes later! Enough with the potty talk. Next item in the "big boy" news category: we have cut Gus's hair! Immediately sea...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: March 2012
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Monday, March 26, 2012. Serious and banal thoughts on picture books. First, the serious. It really annoys me when picture books have unequal gender representation. Is that just my humorless feminist side showing? Gus has a book called Tommy and Minnie's Glitter Book Learning Colours. Tommy is sailing on a sailboat. Minnie waves goodbye to him. Which Gus obviously adores. The thing that annoys me about Fergus in the Park. And even speaks at the end of ...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: Wordless Wednesday
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Wednesday, January 16, 2013. We recently returned from three weeks visiting family in the US (such a great trip! Gus and Pa in the play airplane. Gus and Mama flying a helicopter. Working very hard to move the luggage from the cargo hold to the "bus". The airplane. you could also pilot the plane, go up in the control tower, weight the luggage, and more! Thank you O'Hare and the Children's Museum of Chicago for the great space to play! Goodbye dear blo...
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You Shall Go Out with Joy: September 2012
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You Shall Go Out with Joy. What is Natural Parenting? Monday, September 17, 2012. What's New with Gus. I've been really enjoying watching Gus interact with others recently. He can be really shy and quiet, but once he decides a person is his friend, watch out, because he will not leave them alone! We had a bunch of Jon and my friends over the other week, and Gus immediate latched on to our friend Gary. Poor Gary was trying to talk to people, and Gus just kept bringing him books, saying "Okay! But I love w...
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