Gentle parenting blogs: Practical parenting advice for better parent-child relationships
Welcome to our little library of gentle parenting blogs. Gentle parenting is a form of parenting that tries to work in partnership with children to create a harmonious family environment. Differences between gentle parenting and conventional parenting include the fact that we don’t use punishments or rewards, we live by principles instead of rules and our kids have equal say as members of our family.
It might sound hippie-dippie but we’ve found that working this way as a family has helped us become better communicators and more understanding of each other (parents and kids alike). This page is full of practical advice and tips on working together as a family to become more peaceful, happy and effective (and some humorous posts about the chaos that are our family mishaps- see the bottom of the page!)
You might not connect with all the posts but I hope that there will be some nuggets in here that you can find useful; I LOVE hearing from people who try my tips so please do keep in touch and let me know how it goes!
How-to parenting articles (“What do I do when..?”)
My child is experiencing peer pressure?
My child found our condoms?
My child won’t go to bed / won’t sleep?
My child isn’t reaching their expected milestones?
My child needs to apologise but won’t?
My child behaves badly?
My child finds big social events such as Christmas/ Easter stressful?
My child has a temper tantrum?
My child won’t obey me?
My child is bored?
I feel my child is out to annoy me?
Parenting feels boring and mundane?
10 of the Best Gentle Parenting Books that ARE WORTH THE MONEY!
Communication & Love Languages
What are Love Languages and How Do I Identify My Love Language?
25 Ways to Show Your Child Love Using Love Languages
8 Ways To Nurture Your Child’s Spirituality / Mindfulness
The Benefits Of Assuming Positive Intent In Children
Essay Style Articles on Childhood Issues
What is Unschooling? Our Parenting Philosophy
An alternative look at ‘screen time’
An Open Letter to People Who Criticise Me For Full Term BreastfeedingÂ
‘Strewing’: A fun and educational tool for parents
Do We Need Rules? The Difference Between Rules and Principles
The Difference Between Obedience and Compliance (and what we aim for as a family)
Humour
A REAL ‘day in the life’ of a full time travelling family
5 Alternative travel traditions that we just LOVE to keep
10 ways to wake up bright ‘n’ breezy without fail!
Poems about travel with kids: A collection of Haikus
A disclaimer: Technically our way of parenting isn’t strictly ‘gentle parenting’, as there are other factors within our family such as our children’s increased autonomy and the fact that we home educate, that extends out from under the umbrella of ‘gentle parenting’. We are really ‘radical unschoolers’, but people often freak when they hear that term and I prefer people to read my posts and try my methods out for themselves before they slap a kerazy label on it. So here we are folks!
