“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
~ Dr. Seuss
Parenting Consciously
Out of the Box Solutions for Raising Your Authentic Child
Parenting Consciously is one of the first ‘how-to’ parenting books that helps conscious parents guide and nurture their children as they grow into their authentic spiritual selves.
In the United States, 1 in 4 children are diagnosed with some type of mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. Parenting Consciously invites parents to explore out of the box solutions for raising their authentic children. When you change the environment your children are raised in, the behaviors of your child will change naturally. Are you willing to be that change?
The ‘out of the box’ solutions offered within were gleaned throughout Mary’s own journey of nurturing her three authentic children. Parenting Consciously is separated into eight distinct parts which gives you, the reader, the opportunity to find information specific to where you are in your journey. Each part focuses on a specific timeline, beginning with changing your personal mindset to becoming your own most authentic self. From there to pre-birth or ‘The Longest 9 Months of Your Life’, your child’s first year, ages one to six, ages seven to eighteen, especially for the teen years, and ages one to eighteen, with original topics specific to each timeline.
Un-Broken Children
Ever wonder why we, as a society, are so quick to look for ways to identify people, especially our own children, as broken? Why do we spend so much money to ‘fix’ them? Why are we so willing to just accept someone else’s opinion before we have even given ourselves the opportunity to get to know who they truly are? After her youngest son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), following a 15 minute interview, Mary found her mission to identify alternatives to the dangerous psychotropic medications that are so quickly prescribed. Un-Broken Children is her 3rd book. It explores her family’s out-of-the-box journey to discover how we, as parents, can support our own authentic children by focusing on their strengths and wholeness as we each follow our unique journey to wellness.
Recognizing the Greatness in Each Child – Because Learning Differently Doesn’t Mean Learning Disabled
Henry David Thoreau said, “What lies before us and what lies behind us are of little matter compared to what lies within us.”
But what if you were unable to express or share that information inside you? Many adults experience that feeling each day. They know how frustrating it can be. Now imagine for a moment what it must feel like to be a child with those same feelings. A child doesn’t have the same life experience to help him or her express what gets bottled up inside them day after day.
Maybe you don’t have to imagine – maybe you know how that feels because you felt it as a child – maybe you are still feeling it.
When a child struggles in school they are often diagnosed with some type of learning disorder. This may or may not be the case, depending on how your child learns. Recognizing the Greatness in Each Child offers both parents and children the opportunity to discover their own individual learning style, of the 9 recognized styles. Find out the similarities you share with your child and then celebrate your differences. This information can then be brought to the teacher’s attention and may provide an opportunity to modify assignments to allow learning to occur naturally. Success is soon to follow.
Plants vs Pills
When children don’t fit into the little box society calls “normal” the search begins to identify what’s wrong with them. A wide range of labels have been created to describe these disorders. A natural following to being diagnosed with one of these disorders is the little pill that will make them at least appear normal – that will help them fit back into that little box.
The intent of Plants vs Pills is three-fold.
First – to explore the various mental, emotional and behavioral disorders that children are often diagnosed with, along with the symptoms used to reach that diagnosis.
Second – to identify many of the pharmaceutical drugs used to treat the symptoms along with the dangerous side effects and contraindications for their use.
Third – to offer information on the use of herbal therapies as a compliment to or a replacement for pharmaceutical drugs to achieve the same or better results. Most herbal remedies can be used by children without the dangerous side effects and contraindications that come with the use of pharmaceutical treatments.
It is believed by many in the holistic field that by taking the time to discover the root or core issue of the symptom and honoring the body by returning balance on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level, we can avoid the over diagnosis and in turn the drugging of future generations.