Parenting and Life with the Kiddo

Links to articles on inspiration, sweetness, communication, slow parenting, and more

Photo by Ben McLeod on Unsplash.

Note: Subcategories are presented in alphabetical order.

Book Recommendations

• Ice Water Plunges for Parents: Two parenting books woke me up and warmed my heart

Communication

• I Remember My Parents’ Apologies

Inspired in Part by the Kiddo

• Elon Musk, Neuroindividuality, and 8 Books That Showed Me My Brain (and Yours?): Neuroscience is revealing that no two brains are alike
• The Living Stories of Lost Loved Ones: There’s nothing simple about the rich world of shifting and evolving memories

Slow Parenting

• Embrace Presence in Face of the New Not Normal: Cozy up to the attractiveness of the present
• Introducing “Slow Character”: Exploring ideas and questions of values, identity, ethics, existence, conflict, and communication
• Keeping up with the Carpathians: On Facebook friends who travel
• OMG! Did We Settle in Milwaukee for Beer Garden Culture? Tales from the vat…a pair of older parents choose an Old World town
• Slow Character Meets Slow Parenting in a Video Game Decision

Small Business

• Side Hustles Around Your Kids’ Schedules: 4 areas for parents to make extra income in pockets of time
• What We Can Learn from Kids Starting Businesses: So many reminders, including if they can jump into the fray, so can we
• Kids Don’t Just Learn Entrepreneurship from Starting Businesses: 12 life skills advantages to starting a business young

Sweetness

• ‘Are You In There?’ Spirituality, science, and where our relationships reside
• Stuffed animals are creatures of the soul.

Traveling Together

• ‘The Potty Isn’t Vaxed!’: Finally, something we can all agree on

Sharon Woodhouse is the owner of Conspire Creative, which offers coaching, consulting, conflict management, project management, book publishing, and editorial services for solo pros, creatives, authors, small businesses, and multipreneurs. To support more writing like this, please consider signing up to become a medium member. It’s just $5 a month and gives you unlimited access to Medium’s content.