Tag Archives: Patient parenting

Permanent Damage Averted

By Elise | Published: May 19, 2011

It appears that even though I was extremely critical of my daughter’s poetry reading skills the other morning, she has survived. I don’t know when the age of anxiety around parenting started, but I know we have been in it for a while. Can you imagine our grandparents being concerned about whether or not being [...]

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Terrible Mothering Moment

By Elise | Published: May 17, 2011

This morning, as I was driving my children to school, I noticed that my daughter was reading a Shel Silverstein poem to my son in the back seat. Instead of listening with quiet gratitude, I asked her if today was the day she was going to read her poem out loud to the class.   She [...]

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Relaxing into May Mothering

By Elise | Published: May 5, 2011

It has been a busy week here.  Fine Arts Day was all day Tuesday at Kindergarten.  I spent most of the day with my hands in a bin of soapy water cleaning out paintbrushes.  Each class got to paint their own trash can – which was really fun.  The trashcans looked terrific, and the kids [...]

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No TV – Day 5 (Happy Earth Day too)

By Elise | Published: April 22, 2011

Last night, my kids were sad.  Some of our neighbors were going to go see a movie.  We, on the other hand, were going to eat pork chops. This morning, I tried to talk to them about comparison being the root of much unhappiness.  I told them how they were just talking to me about [...]

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No TV for a week – Day 3

By Elise | Published: April 20, 2011

I am so glad I didn’t donate our big giant box of cardboard bricks.  You know, the ones 3-year-olds play with.  My children have been playing with those things in a bunch of different forms for 2 days.  It’s amazing. They are playing together.  They are happy.  I am happy.  I love screen-free week! Today [...]

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Cold Turkey – No TV for a week – Day 1

By Elise | Published: April 19, 2011

I am a believer in the mission of the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood.  This means that I agree with their mission, that it is wrong to advertising to children who have no media literacy skills.  It sucks that we are the only Western country that is cool with this too.  Arg! Side note:  [...]

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Shifting Summer Stress

By Elise | Published: April 7, 2011

There are only 6 weeks left in the school year, which means I am starting to stress a bit over the impending summer plans.  It’s easy to go down the road of: Crap!  What am I going to do with these kids all summer? This week, I have strongly felt the pull that way.  But, [...]

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Grouchiness, Emotion and Peace

By Elise | Published: March 31, 2011

My husband reads my blog several times a week.  He also cooks dinner, cleans the showers, and puts the kids to bed quite a bit.   I love him so much! However, it is frustrating for him to read my peaceful and inspired posts when he has to deal with me dealing with household crap [...]

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Lenten Updates

By Elise | Published: March 30, 2011

Well, it has been three weeks since I decided to give up yelling at my kids for Lent.  I’m doing really well – which I have to be honest and say is a big surprise.  I really thought it was going to be a huge struggle, but it’s not been any big deal. There are [...]

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Giving Up Indulgences for Lent

By Elise | Published: March 9, 2011

Giving up yelling at my kids for lent – it will be really hard, but I think Jesus would like that.

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