family + kids articles

the stop doing list via live tv

View the segment: STOP DOING Lists ... Mark Kelley and I talk it up this week.

 

mothering.com: new column for modern mamas

I've got a new column on Mothering.com, called: Very Big Love: For Seekers, Mamas, and Mavens

This week's article: Mindful Speech and Supreme Kid-Respect

It's such an honour to be involved in anything that Peggy O'Mara does - she an icon of conscious birth and natural families. And get this - Mothering.com has the #1 community forum on the entire world wide web. That's alotta mamas.

 

dancing to cancer

{If you're viewing this via email, click on the title above to watch the video clip.}

Emotion and passion trumps all: technique, pretense, ego. This dance translates the fight to live, and the essence of real partnership.

The response from the first judge, Nigel, is particularly profound in terms of creativity and courage.

Get your tissues out.

NOTE: DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS' COPYRIGHT POLICE KEEP BLOCKING THE VIDEO OFF OF YOU TUBE.
YOU CAN GET THERE VIA THIS LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWv-WhapM0

And if THAT link gets blocked, just look on You Tube for:
So You Think You Can Dance, Breast Cancer Tribute, and you'll find a copy.
Well worth the clickin'.
xo
Danielle
(more...)

 

a poem for my son

mother's day

when you were born
my days
were suddenly full
of trees and apples
of hope
and the machinations of terror

I conceived of space

my world became
the size of a seed
pointed and round
no intruders
a harvest of possibility
only sorrow that I could imagine

my world became
a growing diamond
in your eyes

I conceived of love
I became home

 

kids are people too: loving heart, mindful speech

How would you feel if, when you first met someone new, they said to you, “Are you going to play shy?” or “Looks like someone’s in a bad mood.” Grown-ups say the darnedest things...

READ MY FULL ARTICLE ON SIMPLEMOM.NET - ONE OF MAY FAVOURITE SMART PARENTING SITES.