How to Feed Your Picky Eater with Respect
We struggled with a picky eater before we started using Parenting Effectiveness Training (PET) with Kelly, dinner was something my husband and I came to dread. Out of five children, we have two picky...
View ArticleOn the Interesting Collision of Breastfeeding Week and Shark Week
My story begins many years ago, when my friends and family started to have babies. One woman was attending LLL meetings and nurse-ins long before she was pregnant and talked about it constantly. I...
View ArticleFourteen Years
Fourteen years. That’s the age difference between my two children. Fourteen years ago I found myself a naïve 20 year old girl, pregnant for the first time and agreeing to elope with a stranger I’d...
View ArticleThe Real Life of a Stay At Home Mom
by Tiffany Gough Warning: I don’t curse in front of my toddler. I do occasionally curse in writing when I am venting. You have been warned. If you don’t like it, well, read the post and you’ll know...
View Article12 Reasons Why the RIE Craze Isn’t Crazy
Lately RIE (Resources For Infant Educarers, a parenting philosophy and nonprofit educational organization founded by Magda Gerber in 1978, and pronounced rye) has been getting a lot of hype. It’s being...
View ArticleRespectful Sleep Learning Part I: The Real Danger of “CIO” (It’s Not What You...
– by Tiffany Gough On all the different peaceful/gentle/respectful parenting pages I follow on Facebook, the most common question I see is almost always a variation of this: “HELP! My baby won’t...
View ArticleRespectful Sleep Learning Part II: My Story
– by Tiffany Gough Before you read about my experience with the polarizing language commonly used in regard to sleep training and my conditioned fear of infant crying, please take a minute to read...
View ArticleRespectful Sleep Learning Part III: What I Wish I Knew Then (The Basics)
– by Tiffany Gough If you haven’t read Part I & Part II of this series, please take a minute to go back and check them out! Here, I have outlined some very effective (and pretty simple) tools...
View ArticlePicky Eaters Can Be Trusted, Too: How the Division of Responsibility Helped...
– by Tara Kreitz As my son grew through babyhood and into toddlerhood, I began learning about a respectful approach to feeding that really resonated with me: Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility...
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