Run a bath.
Go to the kitchen, take two dropperfuls of passionflower tincture*
Get a shotglass, and fill it with olive oil
Take it back to the bathroom, and add 12 drops of lavender oil
Add it to the running bath
Get you and one screaming toddler naked
Get in bath
Squirt a rubber duckie at her
Splash in the water
Smile, and remember [...]
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How to recover from a Mama Tantrum
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Twenty Somethings to Say to Children
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged parenting, positive discipline on January 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I saved this from somewhere on the internet long before I even conceived Fairy Girl. I remember thinking, “I wish someone would say these things to ME.” And the woman who posted it originally told me I could parent myself the way I wished I had been parented, and say those things to myself. I [...]
