My Favorite Parenting Books

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This list of must-haves was posted to Facebook by one of my dearest friends Karin Wertheim.

Karin writes: I often find myself recommending my favorite parenting books to parent friends of mine. Today I wrote an annotated bibliography for a friend, and thought I might as well share it with everybody.

Just so you’re aware, I did the attachment parenting thing (co-sleeping, breastfeeding and carrying the kid in a sling as opposed to a stroller, working part time instead of full time, etc.), so the books I’ve read and agree with are generally in that vein.

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Beliefs and the Magic of the Womens Circle…

Michael Parks JessicaHadari.com Womens Circles

Most women think it takes years of therapy or hard work to move more and more powerfully in their life. They believe in cause and effect where the past influences our present. Some of this might be true; we do code our memories as metaphor. Through creative visualization, self hypnosis, meditation, nlp, positive spiritual practices, to name just a few you can actually create new metaphoric stories with which to influence your life powerfully.

The processes we do in this circle, like the modalities mentioned above, all tap into the right-brain, where time and logic do not exist. That is a good thing :) We consistently disengage from the Newtonian realm of rules and cause/effect and engage more fully in what I call Source or the Source realm; the dreamlike arena of creative thought, intention, visualization  & manifestation… Continue reading

Throwing the baby in the garbage

rosie the mother jessica hadariMy response to a recent email I recieved from a Mamma friend of mine relaying that caring for her six month old baby was feeling really hard.

We’ve known each other for a while, so I enjoyed mixing in humor:

Well, I’m not sure it gets better everyday. More like, “it gets better every year.” With smaller easy/hard cycles that switcheroo every couple of days or weeks…or minutes:(

For me: I mostly wanted the throw my baby in the garbage and put the lid on for about the first two years. (though I wouldn’t trade those sweet just-nothing-quite-like-it nursing years for anything in the world)  

Then he started sleeping.

After that, I wanted to pull out my own hair and cry for the next few years of toddler poop on the walls and tantrums – Continue reading