I’ve been really interested in improving my parenting skills by learning communication techniques as well as gentle discipline (teaching) ideas. I recently took a parenting class through my church and one of the books used was How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. [...]

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We live about 1,100 miles away from our families and so we only get to see them a few times a year. We usually venture their way once or twice a year and they usually visit us once a year. Those few visits don’t provide a lot of time for our two year old son [...]

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We recently needed to replace the sheets on our bed and this time I really wanted to buy organic cotton sheets for two main reasons. First, since I now know about all the chemicals used with regular cotton I want to avoid it as much as possible and bring organic cotton products into our lives [...]

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