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Showing posts sorted by date for query sweet. Sort by relevance Show all posts
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Stunning desire to learn
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Watch and play
Play. A lot. Wonder. A lot. Listen. Observe. Smile. A lot.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Dreams
Peaceful sleep and sweet dreams can come from gentle parenting.
SandraDodd.com/peace
photo by Holly Dodd, of Albuquerque, from a high point in a neighboring town
Monday, October 17, 2022
Happy mom
A mom was worried about intellectualizing too much, and not being fully present with her young child. I wrote:
Nobody's still and at kid-speed all the time. But if you can figure out how to do it sometimes, then you can choose to do it, or choose to go faster, but to bring him along in a happy way.
Instead of saying "Come on, let's go!" maybe you could have picked him up and twirled him around and said something sweet and by the time he knows it he's fifty yards from there, but happy to be with his happy mom.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
One thing
photo by Nicole Kenyon
Monday, August 15, 2022
"I do my best to be the best..."
I do my best to be the best mom and unschooler I can be - for myself, for my son and for my husband - with the knowledge that my example might give someone some ideas on how to see and try things a bit differently themselves. I am constantly looking for examples to grow myself. I absolutely love it when I see someone do something that I think I'd like to try. Sometimes it's a sweet gesture or phrase. Sometimes it's a cool project or idea.
photo by Nina Haley
(documenting the way things were, for a while, when her kids were a bit younger, and also a cool pumpkin-patch outing)
Something looks like this:
collection,
festivity,
siblings
Monday, August 1, 2022
Sugar is sweet
Sugar is sweet, and so are you.
If you're not, consider how much sweeter your child's life would be if you were as sweet as sugar.
"The brain LIVES on glucose. It can’t live without it. And little kids' brains need more glucose than adults'."
SandraDodd.com/sugar
photo by Cátia Maciel
If you're not, consider how much sweeter your child's life would be if you were as sweet as sugar.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Momentum
Food, clothes, the car, beds, baths, hair, shoes, over and over and over?
Try to think of each time as just *this* time. Be kind, generous, and sweet, knowing that you are making up for some other moment when you were maybe cranky or distracted.
photo by Sandra Dodd, a carousel in Minnesota
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
*Be* with your children
Rippy wrote:
I learn every day how to have a better partnership with my children and spouse, how to connect, inspire, trust and help. And now that I have learned how to read without my emotions interpreting the emails for me, the message is consistently the same - be loving, gentle and sweet with your children, *be* with your children, live joyfully.
photo by Rippy Dusseldorp
Sunday, March 27, 2022
A message to your grandchildren
Your children are developing a holographic internal image of you, complete with voice and emotion. The things you do and say are being recorded for posterity; make them sweet and good. What you choose to say and do now will affect what your children say to their children, and what your great grandchildren will hear after you're long gone.
SandraDodd.com/phrases
photo by Julie D
(translated by J'OSE la vie in 2013)
« Vos enfants sont l'élaboration d'une image holographique interne de vous toute entière, avec la voix et l'émotion. Les choses que vous faites et dites sont enregistrées pour la postérité, faites-les douces et bonnes. Ce que vous choisissez de dire et de faire maintenant aura une incidence sur ce que vos enfants diront à leurs enfants, et ce que vos petits-enfants entendront après que vous soyez partis depuis longtemps. Vivez comme si vous étiez leur dernier espoir. » ~ Sandra Dodd
Live like you're their last hope.
SandraDodd.com/phrases
photo by Julie D
« Vos enfants sont l'élaboration d'une image holographique interne de vous toute entière, avec la voix et l'émotion. Les choses que vous faites et dites sont enregistrées pour la postérité, faites-les douces et bonnes. Ce que vous choisissez de dire et de faire maintenant aura une incidence sur ce que vos enfants diront à leurs enfants, et ce que vos petits-enfants entendront après que vous soyez partis depuis longtemps. Vivez comme si vous étiez leur dernier espoir. » ~ Sandra Dodd
Friday, February 11, 2022
"Me-their-age"
photo by Karen James
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
With patience and with gratitude
Be as good as you can be as often as you can be.
photo by Cátia Maciel
Friday, January 21, 2022
Soft, peaceful, relaxed mom
"I'd just like to share that I have also relaxed my militant attitude..."I'm glad to hear that you are relaxing! I bet if your daughter could choose between a Militant Mom and a Soft, Peaceful, Relaxed Mom she would prefer the latter over the former. 🙂
—Sylvia Woodman
photo by Rippy Dusseldorp
Friday, November 12, 2021
Secret worlds
Parents new to unschooling often fear the responsibility of needing to discover things to show their children.
More experienced unschoolers discover the sweet joy of children finding wonderful things to show the parents.
Behind that bark is a little hidden world.
SandraDodd.com/discovery
photo by Rosie Moon
Behind that bark is a little hidden world.
photo by Rosie Moon
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Kindness, and rich lives
Meredith Novak wrote:
more about Abundance
photo of Brie and baby Noor, years ago
Noor is attending university now.
There's a common parenting myth that making our kids' lives easier, being sweet and kind and gentle with them, makes them greedy and unfit for adult life.
It is not true.
Kids learn from experience. When they experience a lot of kindness, they learn the value of kindness in very real, concrete ways. When we make their lives easier, we make it easier for them to learn more and more richly. And they're happier. And that makes parenting easier, because we're not dealing with kids who are stressed out and frustrated.—Meredith Novak
photo of Brie and baby Noor, years ago
Noor is attending university now.
Friday, September 24, 2021
Sweet, light balance
Cameras can stop time. Memories can try. But really, the moment is gone and new moments are coming. Keep your balance, live lightly, be sweet. |
photo by Parvine Shahid
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Sweet little moments
Enough sweet little moments like that, and "the big problems" don't seem so big.
photo by Schuyler Waynforth
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Perspective and patterns
The patterns you and your children see are worth exploring and expanding. The connections you make are your model of the moment, and ultimately part of your model of the universe—past, present, future, imagined, revised, spooky and sweet.
SandraDodd.com/perspective
photo by Annie Regan
photo by Annie Regan
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Optimistic and involved
Deb Lewis:
There were times when things were really tight for us. I mean no gas money and beans and rice for dinner every night.
If I had it to do it again I would use the credit card more. Not go crazy but if twenty or thirty dollars made a big difference in the life of my kid then I’d do that. If you’re justifying coffee and makeup or other adult things that aren’t strictly necessary, then make that same effort to justify some things your kids might like, too. Don’t always sacrifice kid things because they seem less important or urgent.
Quote edited slightly to make it more past tense
Original here: Suggestions for creating abundance when funds are low
photo by Jill Parmer
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If I had it to do it again I would use the credit card more. Not go crazy but if twenty or thirty dollars made a big difference in the life of my kid then I’d do that. If you’re justifying coffee and makeup or other adult things that aren’t strictly necessary, then make that same effort to justify some things your kids might like, too. Don’t always sacrifice kid things because they seem less important or urgent.
But don’t underestimate how wonderful your happy presence can be for your kids. Be sweet and playful and optimistic and involved. Give them lots of your time.
—Deb Lewis
Original here: Suggestions for creating abundance when funds are low
photo by Jill Parmer
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Wordlessly and gently
photo by Karen James (her artwork, herself)
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