Life As A Conscious Mom

“Everyday I think why am I still here?” That’s just one of many thoughts 15 year old Amanda Todd wrote on plain white note cards, as she shared the hell that she had been enduring  via a YouTube video a month before she took her own life. To say that I am sad and sickened…

Caidin’s National Geographic Kids arrived the other day. His Aunt Maria gave him a subscription, and he waits eagerly each month for the magazine. He goes through and reads every story, every highlight, out loud. As he read through this month’s magazine he said ‘did you know that eating cheese after a meal slows tooth…

Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously. Balance Card #7 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Here is my Conscious Living Wisdom Card text for Balance:

Our caterpillars transformed into butterflies this past weekend. And just as we were fortunate to see the caterpillars spin themselves into their chrysalises  we were also fortunate to see the butterflies emerge. The entire process has been fascinating to witness and added such a sense of excitement and wonder to a relatively small moment in time.…

I believe that at the very root of our lives is the spiritual desire to learn, heal and grow and we do that through the experiences (or life lessons) we have. These life lessons are most often situations that occur in our relationships. As conscious parents, we have the opportunity to help our children identify…

Sometimes adults can forget that children can and do experience stress. I’ve heard some adults say ‘what does a child have to be stressed about?’ Size and age has nothing to do with how we react to life experiences. Adults may think that because they have adult size responsibilities that the experience of a child…

Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously. Health Card #22 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) I believe in the holistic nature of our beings. We are not just a body,…

It’s a good question that we should all ask ourselves ‘Who am I to judge?’ Yet that’s what many of us do day-in and day-out and to make it worse, we do it in front of our kids. We talk about the way someone looks, or we comment on their choice of clothes. We talk…

Flower Essences are so helpful for children who are emotionally and energetically sensitive.  Flower Essences are a form of vibrational healing. They work by on an energetic level to remove, replace or transmute energies that are out of balance in any aspect of our being (emotional, mental, physical, ego.) Children tend to still have a…

Caidin has been asking me to get a Butterfly Garden for two years now and I finally did. It arrived several weeks ago and our caterpillars arrived Wednesday, September 19th. They came in a little container, full of food. There were six caterpillars in total. At first they were really still, but the information that…

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