Intentional Conscious Parenting

Intentional Conscious Parenting is a place to share ideas on raising children in an intentional way with a focus on inner connectedness, trusting your intuition, connecting with spirit and Mother Earth, celebrating each child's uniqueness, supporting their inner light, and bringing out their inner creativity. If our blog resonates with you please sign up as a follower and subscribe to our newsletter. Thank you for joining us on the path of conscious parenting and living our lives on purpose!

Apr 1, 2011

March 29th Live Chat Winners Are...........

Ladies, thank you so much for joining our live online chat with Dr. Shefali Tsabary!

Men/Fathers we hope you will join us next time! We would love to hear from you.

The winners are....

Leigh: On my way to a happy life children's picture book By: Deepak Chopra

Alexandria: A beautiful custom made handcrafted pin made by Grace author of http://www.blessedelements.com

Saramamaoftwo: M.A.S.S. 101 Free Thinking Human Being By: Stacy & Ed Toten

Penny: The Conscious Parent By: Dr. Shefali Tsabary

Email your address to Carol @ intunedparenting@gmail.com and I will mail you your prize.

Thanks again for joining us.

Our next live chat will be with Cathy Cassani Adams

~ The Self Aware Parent 19 Lessons For Growing With Your Children ~

When: April 12th

Where: Right here in our Blogfrog Community.

You can access our online interactive parenting community anytime by clicking ICP Blogfrog Community page above. We invite you to introduce yourself and join a conversation.

On the days of our live online chats there will always be a link right here on our blog to make the chat very accessible and easy to join. There is a live countdown to each new chat in the upper right hand corner on our website.

Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific

Prizes: Join in for a chance to win a copy of Cathy's book, The Self Aware Parent

Sponsors:
Kindle Mental Publishing Company ~ Feelings Poster
Kindle Mental's Facebook Page
Blessed Elements Going Green; Grace is donating a handcrafted Green Man necklace! Have you liked Grace on Facebook yet?
Thank You, Angels children's picture book written by: Doreen Virtue courtesy of Hay House Publishing

Missed our live chat with Dr. Shefali? No problem you can read the full chat below
Find out Dr. Shefali's answers to these questions and many more.
Question #1: Lets just jump right in, you talk about: honor who your child is. Will you give some examples please.
Question #2: My daughter is extremely creative, but it impeded "manners" at the dinner table. How do we honor this and teach manners too?
Question #3: What about when the children are grown and the parent feels like they failed because they weren't fully in the conscious parenting process. How does that parent let it go and realize life is a process?

By Carol
author of Intentional Conscious Parenting

Live Author Chat With Dr. Shefali Tsabary Tuesday 3/29th 9 PM Eastern

Dr. Shefali Tsabary joined us for a live online about conscious parenting and her new book The Conscious Parent ~ Transforming ourselves empowering our children.

Visit the "Live Author Chat With Dr. Shefali Tsabary Tuesday 3/29th 9 PM Eastern" Discussion

Mar 31, 2011

Our next live chat is with Cathy Adams ~ The Self Aware Parent

LIVE CHAT WITH CATHY CASSANI ADAMS ~ Tuesday April 12th, 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific.

Author of: The Self-Aware Parent 19 Lessons For Growing With Your Children
By: Cathy Cassani Adams, LCSW, PCI Certified Parent Coach

In The Self Aware Parent By Cathy Cassani Adams, provides a compelling view of becoming a new mother. She gives you a glimpse of her parenting occurrences through her personal looking glass.

Cathy shares her heartfelt moments as she discusses her personal parenting discoveries, triumphs and tragedies. Giving herself time to grieve for her old life so she could fully move into her new parenting role, the importance of self-care and the identity crisis from going from a professional career to being a mom are just a few of the insightful personal experiences she profoundly shares.

The Self Aware Parent is full of remarkable insights on how to help your children work through their emotions while including reminders how by staying present in your parenting moments you will able to savor the experiences.

Cathy provides a beautifully illuminating example on how not to take your child's behavior personally. See how Cathy looks for teachable moments and is able to reach her children at their personal level. The Self Aware Parent is a powerful reminder how you as parents can play a powerful role in helping your children find the joy in learning so they are motivated to find their passions and become life long learners and creators.

Cathy Cassani Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, A PCI Certified Parent Coach, a certified elementary school teacher and a yoga instructor.

Learn more about Cathy at www.cathycassaniadams.com

Join us for a live chat with Cathy for a chance to win The Self Aware Parent ~ 19 Lessons For Growing With Your Children

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Zen Parenting Radio

When: April 12th

Where: Right here in our Blogfrog Community.

You can access our online interactive parenting community anytime by clicking ICP Blogfrog Community page above. We invite you to introduce yourself and join a conversation.

On the days of our live online chats there will always be a link right here on our blog to make the chat very accessible and easy to join.

~ Live countdown to each new chat in the upper right hand corner on this website.

Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific

Prizes: Join in for a chance to win a copy of Cathy's book, The Self Aware Parent

Sponsors:

Kindle Mental Publishing Company ~ Feelings Poster

Kindle Mental's Facebook Page

Blessed Elements Going Green; Grace is donating a handcrafted Green Man necklace! Have you liked Grace on Facebook yet?

Thank You, Angels children's picture book written by: Doreen Virtue courtesy of Hay House Publishing

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Mar 29, 2011

Live author chat TONIGHT! 9 PM Eastern ~ Dr. Shefali Tsabary

We are welcoming Dr. Shefali Tsabary to our Intentional Conscious Parenting BlogFrog Community tonight!

Join in our live chat. Ask Dr. Shefali your conscious parenting questions. Meet other parents on the conscious parenting path and have fun!

If you have any problems getting on our live chat or have any questions email Carol @ intunedparenting@gmail.com

Suggestions for participating in live chat: Join our blogfrog community now so when the chat starts all you have to do is hop on.

"Our children won't stay around us forever but will soon move on to their own lives. It's during the few short years we have them to ourselves that we can help them awaken to the fullness within them, because it's into this inner cup that they will dip when they are alone at college and under pressure, in a relationship and struggling with intimacy, or in a financial crunch and anxious. To prepare them for this, their spirit needs to be nourished on a daily basis." ~ Dr. Shefali Tsabary The Conscious Parent Transforming Ourselves Empowering Our Children

The Conscious Parent (book) by Shefali Tsabary
Live chat with Dr. Tsabary right here in our Intentional Conscious Parenting Blogfrog Community Tuesday March 29th 9PM Eastern. 8PM Central, 7PM Mountain, 6PM Pacific

My top five favorite messages from The Conscious Parent.
1. I really loved that throughout The Conscious Parent, Shefali reaffirms the processof parenting and life is more important than the outcome.
2. Your unconsciousness isn't your children's to inherit: it is yours to excavate. Being a conscious parent means you are increasingly aware of your unconsciousness as it arises in day to day situations.
3. Shefali demonstrates through her own experiences how to honor your children for their essential qualities such as joy, peace, authenticity, courage and trust.
4. By being fully present with your child, you learn how to make the simple moments count.
5. Shefali shows you how through your children you can learn how to really live, meet your children as they are being to being!
Read my full review!

"Shefali Tsabary's invaluable book shows how the challenges of parenting can become a great opportunity for spiritual awakening. Becoming a fully conscious parent is the greatest gift you can give to your child." ~ Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth

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Sponsors & Prizes !

http://www.blessedelements.com * A beautiful custom made pin by Grace

http://www.namastepublishing.com - * The Conscious Parent By Dr. Shefali Tsabary

http://www.Hayhouse.com - * No Excuses Picture book Written By: Dr. Wayne Dyer

* On My Way To A Happy Life By: Deepak Chopra

M.A.S.S. 101 Free Thinking Human Being By. Ed and Stacy Toten

Mar 27, 2011

We have won The Inspirational Blogger Award

This is a beautiful award. Thank you!

We have won lot's of awards but we have never won the Inspirational Blogger Award. Thank you Nadya from the Journey Keeper. Nadya has an inspirational article called Motherhood, My Choice that we would love to share with you. Nadya is from South Africa.

This is a hard choice on who to pass this award on to. We read many incredible blogs. There is so much talent in this world! We decided to keep it simple and pick three inspiring bloggers to share this award with. We chose bloggers from around the world.

We would like to pass this award onto Zen Mama Travels. Betsy does a fabulous job showing beautiful pictures from her travels. She'll have you inspired to travel in no time. We love Betsy's approach to life. She's full of wonderful guidance and tips on how you can live a Zen life. Betsy is blogging from the U.S.A.

Perspective And The Front Lawn By: Odysseus

The idea of being a guest blogger ignited my thinking around the idea of perspective and how important diverse and expansive perspective are to both growing children and growing parents.

Having lived my entire childhood, my youth, and most of my adult life in America, I feel a strong connection to all things American. For better or worse. everything from baseball and beer commercials, two-party politics and ex-Monsanto executives serving as Supreme Court Justices to Native American "reservations' and ancient Redwoods, Nat King Cole and Nirvana, my psyche is saturated in Americanisms.

More recently, the smoothie of my consciousness has been enriched by some new perspectives. My son Phoenix and I have lived the last five years on an agricultural Greek Island. Here my ancestors, famous for their strides in the Maths, Sciences, Philosophy and the Arts, and on this particular island healing and medical insights, our perspective has expanded. The shift of perspective that a connection to my roots and a view of the USA from the outside has offered has been enlightening and instructional on many levels.

As a suburban teenager growing up in a typical white-picket fence, two-car garage community, mowing and watering the lawn in the spring and summer and raking and bagging the leaves to be discarded with the trash in the fall, were not only part of my weekly chores, but became a way of earning money, as I went to work for a friend's lawn care business. In those days the thought that row after row of manicured grass lawns just might represent an enormous waste of resources, was not yet even in the germination stage of my conscious thinking.

Here on the Island of Kos, in the Aegean Sea, the only grass fields are the ones cultivated for playing football(or soccer as it is known to Americans). The typical home here is surrounded by olive, orange, lemon and pomegranate trees and likely has grape vines somewhere on the porch or terrace. Once spring comes, whatever front or back yards locals have, no matter how small or big, are turned into farming space. With the first day of Spring a week away, I have been spending the last week starting seven different kinds of tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, some rare green beans passed on from the Cherokee (pre-America) nation, lots of watermelons and cantaloupes. Greens and herbs I will sow directly into the Earth in the next couple of weeks.

This photo, is not me as a suburban American teenager, but my son Phoenix before a traditional Greek dance performance.....

Carol Lawrence is an energetic practitioner, blogger, author of Working From Home As A Virtual Assistant, social media manager, author interviewer, book reviewer, and co-author of Intentional Conscious Parenting. She has been happily married for 30 years, a mother of two Indigo sons, has several animals and loves nature, exploring the human mind, spirituality, reading, writing, mother earth, walking around in the forests of Montana and doing her part to make the world a better place.

Stacy Toten is a doctor of Metaphysics. She has been a practitioner for over twenty-five years, blogger, children's author, book reviewer, author interviewer, co-author of M.A.S.S. 101 Man Approaching Simple Soulutions, children's behavioral management coach, artist and co-author of Intentional Conscious Parenting. She is happily married for 35 years, she has two Indigo daughters, 2 cats and 2 dogs. Her passions are writing, reading, mother earth, swimming in the ocean, movies and sharing her spiritual gifts with the world and working with parents and children.

Together intuitively Carol and Stacy are fulfilling a calling and a passion to write children's picture books. They are assistant editors for the family and parenting community at All Things Healing.They provide nurturing tips and encouragement for parents walking an intentional spiritual conscious parenting path by supplying an inviting platform for their established parenting community. Visit Intentional Conscious Parenting for author interviews, book reviews, and conscious parenting articles.

"Dear Stacy, You and Carol have an incredible collaboration; timely, important, empowering, useful, enlightening and passionate. Your presentation is excellent; visable, clean, welcoming and very easy on the eyes. Everything is insightful and geared to helping others help themselves."
~Debby Carmen
http://www.fauxpawproductions.com

"I LOVE IT!!!! I LOVE IT JUST THE WAY IT IS. YOU BOTH HAVE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB AND I WOULD DEFINATELY BUY AND READ THIS BOOK TO MY GRANDCHILDREN.!!! " ~Becky (Referring to our ABC spiritual picture book coming to a book store near you soon)

Deana said... I love this post. It is so easy to forget to help ourselves when we are doing so much for others but I really find myself happier to help others when I take care of myself first! Love it!

queen of trees herbal said... I really loved to read this... Thank you. Good Stuff.. Many Blessings to you and I'm happy to have found your blog.. Blessings.

Mommy Spirit said... This is my philosophy, exactly, but now I can refer to it by a title--free flowing child. You so elegantly and gracefully explain the relationship between establishing healthy boundaries while giving your child an opportunity to explore their own concept of self, identity, and creativity. What a beautiful blog. I am happily following you!

Sofia said... I absolutely love this post! My favorite: Let them know every day that they matter! Their ideas and who they are matter and that they make a difference.

Betsy (zen-mama.com) said... Love the spiritual parenting ideas! I especially like:Allow them space where time doesn't exist: allowing them to be in their moment and Keep an open mind: Really listen to what they are asking for , needing, seeing, or hearing or smelling http://www.intentionalconsciousparenting.com/2010/07/free-flowing-child.html

Dee said..."Thank you so much for creating this blog! It is greatly appreciated."

Jane said " Nice site, it is great to see more about parents coming together to help support empaths and children seeing ghosts. A world where we empower our children is a world where we embrace truth."