Hi. I'm Kate. Peaceful Parenting, Confident Kids is a parenting journey involving two beautiful girls (13 months apart) and discovering the wonderful world of RIE.
Category Archives: Building Confidence
Why I Let my Children Take Risks
Risk taking is a natural part of our everyday lives. Many risks we probably don’t even think of as risky: pouring our tea, driving our car, crossing the road etc. We are so used to these things going right that we no … Continue reading
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Tagged Natural development, Pride, Pushing outside comfort zone, Risk Taking
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Why I Yelled and Why I’m Sorry!
TODAY, I YELLED! I had had an emotional morning for a variety of (non-kid related) reasons. I found myself spiralling out of control as I was dealing with soiled pants, a child who was objecting to being cleaned and another … Continue reading
5 Steps to a Peaceful Day Care Drop Off
A few weeks back my little girl, Lucy, started objecting to being left at day care. She has been attending regularly for well over a year and apart from some occasional, explainable upset drop offs, she has generally been quite … Continue reading
Testing Toddlers Crave Limits
Over the past couple of weeks my usually placid, youngest toddler has become more assertive, more demanding and generally more testing. Coincidently we celebrated her second birthday last week. Does this mean we are in for a healthy dose of the … Continue reading
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