04 Family Wellbeing – Parenting for the Future

by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in

04 Family Wellbeing, 19 Reading and Writing, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 31 Technology, 32 Mindfulness

HOLD THE BIGGER PICTURE

Anthony We all get focused on those small important things in our lives. We become focused and attached to behaviours and things that we have decided are either important and that feel compelling, or that are in some way addictive. We can get stuck in our thinking and beliefs, our attitudes and emotions. How easy it seems for us to start believing that the world that we see close-up around us is the only world there is. How much do we expand our view beyond the current crisis? Why is

by Anthony Eldridge-Rogers in

04 Family Wellbeing, 19 Reading and Writing, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 31 Technology, 33 Podcasts

SELF DIRECTED LEARNING & LIVING

What does it mean to be self directed? Most people consider that they are self directed. They will believe they make decisions freely for themselves and their families and that they are autonomous in their lives to a large extent. This confidence in the idea of being self directed extends to beliefs. Most of us argue that our beliefs are our beliefs because we chose them. It seems that way I know but it is not hard to understand that we are highly influenced by family background and social conditioning.

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 18 Self Care for Parents, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Letting go of Perfect

This is a post I am writing in seven parts, so my aim is to do one a day for a week, as a reminder to myself as well as to other homeschooling/unschooling parents who are out there doing their best to raise their kids at home. Right now some of you have been thrown in to this crazy but beautiful world. It isn't always easy, so here is day one!! This is for me as much as it is for all of you!These are short snippets, so feel free

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 06 homechooling, 18 Self Care for Parents, 28 Self Care, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Get Connected

If you are totally overwhelmed with homeschooling or unschooling and what is going on in the news right now, connect up with others. I hear this a lot from parents who are isolated and who are not in connection with other people. I think community is so very important, even if you are physically a long way from any one else. Use the phone, the internet, Skype. Don’t tough it out and isolate yourself, connect up with others and make time to chat. Even if it is for twenty minutes.

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 18 Self Care for Parents, 28 Self Care, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Be Nice to Yourself

This applies to everybody. If I am not nice to myself as a mother I am not really nice to anyone else around me. So this means listening to what I need to do for myself. So this can be anything as simple as making time to jump into a candlelit bath at night, to going for a walk at some point in the day to taking time to meet a friend (this we can’t do right now but the time will come when we can!) or cooking something really

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 18 Self Care for Parents, 28 Self Care, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Enjoy What You Have

Sometimes, having one or both parents at home means that your finances can run extremely low, I am particularly feeling this today! Especially if you have lost your work due to the coronavirus. Resources can totally deplete and this can be stressful. Make use of what you have, this sounds simple but it is true I think that the less I have in life the more I make use of what I do have. You don’t have to spend a fortune to feel good, so even if it means buying

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 18 Self Care for Parents, 26 Food Exercise Relaxation sleep, 28 Self Care

Day 6 – Do Exercise you love!

I am not good at running, I often think, why I am running? Nothing is chasing me, is it? The truth is when I go running I don’t massively enjoy it, I know people that do but it has never clicked with me. I think if I was hunter gatherer type I might be the one that gets eaten by the lion…So the trick I have found is to do exercise that I actually like. I LOVE dancing and swimming. So at the moment I am dancing a lot and also

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 12 relationships, 18 Self Care for Parents, 21 For Mothers, 22 For Fathers, 23 For LGBT parents, 32 Mindfulness

Tis the season not to be triggered.

A loving reminder/question for all of you entering in to the Christmas season with family and friends. Can you stay in your truth and not get triggered? Can you be aware when you are getting stressed?This can be a time of year when tensions rise. So for any of you out there who are mixing with the button pressers remember this, breathe through any awkward questions. Remember to lovingly keep your boundaries and be gentle with others and yourself. Sometimes people can be curious about different ways of raising kids and

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 31 Technology, 32 Mindfulness

Are you good at self care on this parenting journey?

‘If you are a parent can you please put on your oxygen mask first before putting a mask on your child’ the flight attendant says that on the plane. I think ‘that can’t be right? Can it?’ then I think well if I am not breathing then, er…then yes it is completely right, this piece of information is about self care. As parents we need to look after ourselves first otherwise how can we look after our children? Below I list a few reminders and tips as to how to

by Lehla Eldridge in

04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 14 Work Life Balance, 16 The healthy child, 18 Self Care for Parents, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Not Back to School

We are not going to the shops and buying school clothes for the next year, our kids are not mentally preparing themselves for what lies ahead in a few weeks, shoes are not getting shined, shirts not ironed, books not being especially bought, in our household none of this is going on. As we are not going back to school. Our household isn’t all Instagram shiney, we aren’t always on to the next thing smiling and laughing without a care in the world. There are days when I look at

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