On a Ledge--Progressive Parenting & Green Livi On a Ledge--Progressive Parenting & Green Livi Information, opinions, and ideas on progressive parenting & green living from the founders of ProgressiveKid and Kids Rock. ProgressiveKid is an online retail store with planet-friendly, message-based pr
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Parental Anxiety: Running with Pointy Objects
2007-03-05 22:55:02 by Julie at ProgressiveKid Like other parents of young kids, I find myself talking about parenting a lot. Dropping off and picking up my four-year-old daughter from preschool, attending birthday parties, watching ballet classes, hanging out with siblings and friends, I?ve heard the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between. We all have our trials, our laughs, our fears and hopes. The wisest among us work hard to help our children develop into mindful, empathetic beings capable of thinking beyond their own narcissistic urgencies. We want our kids to be self-confident and humble, strong and kind, independent and interconnected, fierce and loving. We parents these days are an anxious bunch. Perhaps it?s that there are 7 billion of us now on this fragile sphere. Maybe it?s that we are spending less time with our kids because we work more. It could be an overresponse to the fairly self-involved parenting many of us received. It may be an effort to combat the continuous barrage o... More About: Running , Rental , With , Anxiety , Point
Less Green Is More Green
2007-03-05 22:55:02 by Sarah at ProgressiveKid The term green has come to mean much more than simply “made in an environmentally friendly way.” Green means a forest wasn’t felled, a river wasn’t polluted, a child wasn’t forced to work. It means that country A didn’t destroy its own resources and economy to make something for country B.* To put it in more positive terms, green is used to describe that which is life-sustaining. The term has come to signify a system of values that is still evolving and that is wide-ranging and broadly defined. And, in fact, by its very nature perhaps, the definition of green must, like its inspiration, be ever-evolving. There is, after all, nothing static about life on earth. To underscore the fluidity of green, let me share an additional definition my four-year-old daughter taught me over the Christmas holiday. During the gift opening with my extended family, she steadfastly refused, to the barely controlled exasperation of her grand... More About: More , Less
Pinkish Green
2007-03-05 22:55:02 By Sarah at ProgressiveKid I’ve been called many things in my life, including “leftie,” “bleeding heart liberal,” and a personal favorite, “animal lover.” I never minded being called any of these things and never understood, frankly, why the person saying them seemed to think they were insults, which has on occasion led to my replying, “Thank you,” followed by a silence mildly uncomfortable for all parties involved. Just recently, however, the name calling occurred again with a different result: I was surprised. It was not that the names themselves were unfamiliar. To the contrary, they were some of the old, recognizable, and not altogether unwelcome names leveled on many prior occasions. What was surprising this time was the context of the name calling. The context I’m referring to is my noncommercial website for kids, Kids’ Rock (http://www.progressivekid.com/kidsrock). This is a site my business partner and I, wh... More About: Pink , Green , Kish 1, 2 |
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