“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who Read More
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Life is Suffering, Just not for my Kids
The Buddha said “Life means suffering”, but every mother thinks, “just not my kids, leave them out”. When my children were growing up, my first and immediate response to thier physical or emotional pain was, of course, to prevent or cure it. As they grew older there were more hurts that I couldn’t prevent and Read More
Peace: Ending The Mommy Wars Within
A new round of debates about motherhood and feminism have been spawned by the book, “Conflict”, by Badinter. In The Eternal Internal Mommy Wars, Dell’Antonia describes the debates as an expression of the constant war within mothers (and now more frequently within fathers) between satisfying their own needs and those of their child. This dichotomy Read More
Ending Parent Self-Neglect: One Downward Dog at a Time.
Child neglect is a form of child maltreatment. In the absence of poverty, child neglect can be defined as a deficit in meeting a child’s basic needs like supervision, nutrition, rest, emotional nurturing, shelter. Thank goodness, most parents do not neglect their children. As a matter of fact most middle class parents are giving their Read More