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!

Nov 22, 2010

What is the Best Thing about Your Kids?

Great discussion happening at our ICP Blog Frog Community.

What is the Best Thing about Your Kids? | Intentional Conscious Parenting

How would you answer that question? We'd love to hear your answers.

Come and express your admiration for your children in our BF community.

Is it their smile? How they make you feel?
How they know when you need a hug?

The way they connect with everyone around them?

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Nov 21, 2010

The Power Of Words.

Thank you, Rob Wiltshire, for sharing your photo with us.

A very important tool in life is learning about the power of our words.

Like colors, words have a vibration. Words can make you feel great or make you feel sad. Almost everyone has had experiences during childhood of being called names or being around a bully who was picking on someone.

Words can hurt. They can also change your world. The newest studies available show you how they carry their own vibration. Since we live in vibrational bodies we are effected by the vibrations that are directed at us and around us. We receive these vibrations from the music we listen to, the words we hear, TV, news, conversations, books and more. If this concept is new to you there are many studies and wonderful books exploring the power of words. One of the coolest books on the topic is

The Healing Power Of Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto. His studies were groundbreaking. They haves shown the power of words through using water crystals. If you haven't seen his amazing photos your missing out. You will never look at words the same way. You'll never look at water the same way.

Are You Parenting From The Past?

Are you willing to take a hard look at your parenting skills and the way you discipline your child?

Have you ever thought about where your parenting beliefs come from? The ways we discipline our children have been passed down from grandparents to parents and then to us. Some parenting practices go back several generations. Societal beliefs also shape each decade.

How do you feel about the way you were disciplined as a child?
Have you ever explored these feelings? There is much value in this exploration.
Are you parenting from the past?

A Successful tool we have used was to grab a piece of paper and pen. Draw a line down the middle of the paper. On top of the page write mom/dad. Write pros' on one side and con's on the other. Now start listing what you liked and didn't like. This is where the intentional Conscious Parenting begins.

(This is an example, no references to anyone in particular)

By the choices that you make you help shape your child's well being. Choose wisely someday they may quite possible be passing on these beliefs onto your grandchildren.

Here is a good time to break any chains that need to be broken. It does not matter if you have a baby on the way or if your child is 10 or seventeen. It's never to late to change.

Written by: Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten

Since no other journey is able to evoke more emotional reactivity in us than parenting, to be a parent invites us to treat the reactions our children trigger in us as opportunities for spiritual growth. ~ Shefali Tsabary, PhD

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Nov 17, 2010

NO EXCUSES!

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” Richard Bach

Nov 15, 2010

Intentional Conscious Parenting Updates

Hello everyone. Happy Fall!
We hope you are enjoying the unfolding of Fall. It is so beautiful. We really enjoy watching the leaves turn colors one by one and fall off the trees as they prepare for winter.

INTENTIONAL CONSCIOUS PARENTING NEWS:

We would like to share with you a recent accomplishment. An article of ours.......2012~Let The Celebration Begin is published this month in Fit Beautiful Magazine. Fit Beautiful is an online magazine that inspires and educates women on the wellness of body, mind and spirit with a emphasis on nutritional and healthy daily living habits. Fit Beautiful is available 24/7 online and is in print twice a year.

We hope you get a chance to read it. Please share your thoughts about our article at Fit Beautiful Magazine. We'll have another article in Fit Beautiful Magazine in December. You will be able to find our articles under the category Your Spiritual Side in the Inspirational section.

New newsletter sign up. We are trying a different newsletter format. You can sign up on our blog top right-hand corner. If you are already signed up with our older newsletter format please resign up with our Google newsletter link. We will be transitioning over.

CAROL & STACY'S PUBLISHING PROCESS:

Amongst painting our homes, many visitors, a few vacations, surgeries on our pets, participating in the Write On Con online writers conference, critiquing our query letter many times, mailing off completed manuscripts, several query letters to various agents and spending a lot of time working on articles for our blog we are now ready to transition into the process of writing our second children's picture book. We'll keep you posted on how the process unfolds.

UPCOMING REVIEWS AND GIVEAWAYS:

We have some exciting reviews coming up real soon. We are very excited to be reviewing three books for Namaste Publishing.

1) The Conscious Parent Transforming ourselves ~ Empowering our children by Shefali Tsabary, PhD is an exceptional new parenting book. You'll never look at parenting the same way after reading Shefali's new book. Be on the look out for our complete review and giveaway! One lucky newsletter subscriber will win a copy of The Conscious Parent.

2) If you watch Oprah you might remember the ground breaking phenomenal
A New Earth Web Event series with Eckhart Tolle. We participated every week in this groundbreaking soul series event. We will be bringing you our full and honest review of Eckhart Tolle and Robert S Friedman's children's book
Milton's Secret ~ An Adventure Of Discover Through Then, When, And The Power Of Now. Sign up for our newsletter for a chance to win your very own copy. Winners are picked from our newsletter subscriber list using random.org

3) Another exciting review coming up is..... Mister Ego And The Bubble Of Love by Namaste author Amber Hinton. Keep an eye out for our full review and giveaway.

OTHER PLACES YOU'LL FIND US ON THE NET:

Our Intentional Conscious Parenting Blog Frog community is growing by leaps and bounds. If you haven't joined and participated in one of the great conversations happening over there please come and visit. We value your advice. Come and share it with other parents, authors, artists and creative minds! You do not need to be a parent to participate.

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Written by: Carol Lawrence

If we free ourselves from our ego and simply observe our children's development as life spontaneously teases it out of them, they become our teachers. In other words, living authentically allows us to cease looking at our children as blank canvasses on which we can project our image of who they should be, seeing them instead as fellow travelers on the journey, changing us as much as we are changing them. ~ Shefali Tsabary, Phd
From Shefali's new book ~The Conscious Parent
Printed with permission from Namaste Publishing.

Fit Beautiful Magazine

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."