Posts Tagged ‘parenting from sufficiency’

Why Have Kids?

December 8th, 2010    -    No Comments

The current discourse on parenting seems to follow some particular trends including parenting is hard, parents these days overparent (i.e. helicopter parent), and being a bad mom is ok (whatever bad means). Parents from other generations like to criticize those of us doing the raising these days, and we in turn like to criticize howRead the Rest…


Birthday Reflections: Intervening in the Scarcity Spiral

May 19th, 2010    -    No Comments

Last week it was my birthday. I had no special plans. I thought I was beyond needing to have a special birthday. After all, I thought, “I’m too old to care.” I’m not three, like my daughter, who co-opts any birthday she can within arms’ reach of a set of candles to blow out. WhenRead the Rest…


Parenting from "Strength in What Remains"

January 13th, 2010    -    3 Comments

It was an accident that I started reading the book Strength in What Remains (Random House, 2009) as I also started preparation for the Parenting from Sufficiency tele-course. I had ordered the book from the library back in October, but it was so popular, the book arrived three months later, last Friday. I’ve been transfixedRead the Rest…


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