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Then Do It

By EM Posted on May 13, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with positive discipline, trust
Then Do It

Did you say yes to your kid? Did you say no? Whatever you said, if you don’t follow through, you’re demonstrating that your words don’t mean much and they can predictably tune you out.

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Well That Explains a Lot

By EM Posted on May 8, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with direct mind, epistemology, mythology, personhood
Well That Explains a Lot

I mentioned I’ve been reading Before Philosophy by Henri and Henriette Frankfort, et al. And I mentioned it’s one of my favorite treatises on mythology. What I didn’t mention is the lights-on moment I got the first time I picked up this book, which …

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Say Yes as Often as You Can

By EM Posted on May 6, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with positive discipline, say yes
Say Yes as Often as You Can

Your kids have to accommodate your needs and wishes, because your needs and wishes matter, true. That’ll work best if you get in the habit of saying yes to them.

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They Have to Accommodate

By EM Posted on April 29, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with boundaries, positive discipline
They Have to Accommodate

Kids’ needs and wishes matter. Their creativity, their malleability, their resilience, their openness — those aspects of their character matter, a lot.

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More than Metaphor

By EM Posted on April 26, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation, mythology
More than Metaphor

In my last post about mythology, I said that myth isn’t metaphor. Metaphor is a popular way to look at myth these days, which is why it deserves some pushback. I maintain that myths are not allegories of the human psyche. Of course, any lens can be …

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A Game of Equals

By EM Posted on April 22, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with equality, hierarchy, positive discipline
A Game of Equals

I see family life as a game. There are rules. There’s also an objective: having as nice a time as possible while making sure everyone’s needs get met.

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Chill Out, Jo-Cam

By EM Posted on April 17, 2015 Posted in Mythognosis Tagged with critique, debunking, mythology, psychology
Chill Out, Jo-Cam

The other day a friend of mine asked me what I have against the mythologist Joseph Campbell. Every time the guy’s name comes up, I swear; also, I love mythology. So what’s your problem, my friend asked. That’s a fair question. I …

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No Double Standards

By EM Posted on April 15, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with equality, positive discipline
No Double Standards

Let’s get clear. In different situations, different rules prevail. You take your shoes off in one person’s house; at someone’s else, you don’t.

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New Series: Parenting Diaries

By EM Posted on April 8, 2015 Posted in Parent Tagged with free range parenting, positive discipline
New Series: Parenting Diaries

Lately I’ve been wanting to write about parenting. I really like the Positive Discipline approach, which pretty much saved me about a decade ago when I was moving to France to be a nanny with no prior childcare experience. Three months …

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Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

By EM Posted on December 1, 2014 Posted in God and the Tao, Mythognosis Tagged with consubstantiation
Jesus Year: What Does It Mean for Christ to Live in Your Heart?

Asking Jesus into your heart is a dead horse of a phrase that’s been beaten by, I don’t know how many clichés. It’s one of the dearest and perhaps most important ideas to have cemented itself into the vocabulary of evangelical Christianese. …

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