Articles for Parenting Today

How Do We Discipline?

Submitted Aug. 31, 2010

I find myself revisiting the dilemma of discipline once again after a presentation offered this August at the Nelson Waldorf School. Visiting presenter Kim Payne offered his well developed, researched and hysterically funny ideas on the evolution of discipline in ...

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Physical Contact

Submitted Aug. 24, 2010

As our children are born they leave a world in which they have been completely embraced by our physicality, where they are ‘held’ 24 hours a day for many months. That all encompassing touch is vital to the wellbeing of ...

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Turning it off for awhile

Submitted Aug. 17, 2010

Last weekend I had the absolute joy and pleasure of spending 48 hours immersed in spontaneous, creative play with my eight year old. We canceled all social engagements, turned off the phone and all other electronics, then decided any chores ...

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Doing Our Own Work

Submitted Aug. 10, 2010

I recently re-read the following poem by Kahil Gibran in which he speaks clearly of our work as parents to be the strong foundation from which our children go forth to build their own lives.

And a woman who held ...

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About the Author

Georgia Argyle has been working with, studying and writing about children for the last 9 years with the input of her son and his many friends.

A life long love of children and their peaceful, honest nature has brought Georgia some of her most meaningful life lessons through what has always been conversations and interactions of integrity and light. Using day to day experiences mixed with the advice and guidance of more experienced care providers, Georgia has come to a place of confidence in her parenting.

Georgia has completed Early Childhood Education training and has run a private daycare center in her home and worked in both Preschool and Kindergarden classrooms.