It turns out that kids get older. In fact, they get so much older so fast that my oldest is about to enter high school. There’s something about high school that’s a little intimidating. As both a homeschooling parent and a mom I feel the hot breath of separation breathing down my neck. “She’ll be…
Parenting
Productive People With Young Children: A Message From Your Future
All parents know there’s this ideal where you slow down, radiate constant availability, and move at the pace of a young child following a snail through the garden. And then there’s reality. All the love in the world, but also: your To Do list, nagging in the back of your mind; this feeling that you are being squeezed all the time, from all directions, and no matter how hard you work, or how organized you are, you can’t quite get out of the vice; a sense that those adorable, busy, tiny hands are thwarting your simple need for some adult accomplishment; the unbidden resentment when the 45 minutes you counted on to just get this one thing done evaporates as your kid unexpectedly vomits warm, semi-digested California roll down your back (true story).
Permaculture Parenting
Note: this is a super long post, and much of it is personal story and observation stuff. If you want to just skip to the bottom for the take-away lessons on combining Permaculture with parenting, please feel free. For a while there my son and I were really butting heads. I’ve been at the end…