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.
Tag Archives: Natural development
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
Posted in Building Confidence, Confident Kids, Play
Tagged Natural development, Pride, Pushing outside comfort zone, Risk Taking
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Learning to be a Respectful Parent
It took 18 months of parenting before I realised I was on a dangerously downward spiralling path with my children, pushing them further away and slowly undermining their sense of confidence in themselves and trust in me. As I read more and … Continue reading
Posted in Building Confidence, Expressing Emotion, Parenting Peacefully, Peaceful Discipline, Play, Sibling Rivalry
Tagged Acknowledging Feelings, aggression in toddlers, allowing play at age and stage, Building a Trusting Relationship, Changing Nappys, Communicating with Babies, confidence in children, Conflict Resolution, Creativity, Discipline, Gentle Parenting, Imagination, Infant learning, Montessori Approach, Natural development, Respectful Parenting, RIE, Slowing Down Care Giving Moments, Tantrums, Toddler conflicts, Toddler emotion, Unsharing
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Our Weekly Play: Week 7
Very little work for me this week (yippee!!) so more time for playing. The weather turned a little chilly here but the sun still shone so we still made our way outside as often as possible. For a long time now … Continue reading
Our weekly Play: Week 4
Play is such a wonderful thing. Play to a child is like work to an adult. It is serious, it is important and it is highly valued. As parents with ‘real’ jobs and ‘real’ responsibilities it can be easy to overlook … Continue reading
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