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Children and You | Arise To Shine — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:59:26 +0000

[...] ~ Take time. Take time to watch them, play with them, listen to them, respect them. “Perhaps parenting slow is the bravest choice we can make in our success warped shiny society.” [...]

By: Thankful Blogging « mama:monk

Thankful Blogging « mama:monk — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:18:10 +0000

[...] good taste in childhood novels, she is homeschooling her kids in a way I find fascinating (“Slow Parenting,” anyone?) and teaching them to love books. She hasn’t used paper napkins in three years and [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:09:27 +0000

MSNBC has a news segment today “Love my kids, hate my life”.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38258640#38258640

More fodder for “slow, idle, brave”.

By: Late Tuesday Night Jumbo Diet Dr. Pepper - Miss Wisabus

Late Tuesday Night Jumbo Diet Dr. Pepper - Miss Wisabus — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:58:20 +0000

[...] Micah’s post discussing “slow parenting” was eye-opening for me. It’s exactly what I hope to do someday. My parents raised us that way, to a certain extent. While it was not always on purpose (I know that much), I do appreciate that we were allowed to pursue our interests within reason and that we weren’t on the road every night of the week. [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:26:16 +0000

This article by David Brooks may also be relevant to this conversation – “The Medium is the Medium”. Brooks argues for the importance of books. The internet is a good source for information, but books are the source for depth.

“But the literary world is still better at helping you become cultivated, mastering significant things of lasting import.”
http://nyti.ms/a9AjvS

I think it is safe to say that there are threads that link all these pieces on books, depth, patience, and breast feeding. Enough for now to acknowledge this. Maybe more understanding of these threads, the web of links in life, will emerge here.

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:48:02 +0000

I am not completely satisfied with your viewpoint here. There is a fine line here, and neglect is the “name of the game” just on the other side. I live in a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago where the signs of neglect, not “slow and idle” are everywhere.

However, the most recent issue of New York magazine carries an intriguing, if not downright unsettling, article. “All joy and no fun: why parents hate parenting”.
http://bit.ly/alO50d

Maybe if you stick with this issue long enough, you can become the “Wendell Berry” for parenting.

By: Lex

Lex — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:09:40 +0000

I think you’re onto something really good with this.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:47:34 +0000

I absolutely long for this. I think it’s extremely important. Maybe it’s because I am still recovering after many years of busy-ness – when I had my son (who will turn three this week!) I deliberately had to slow down. It was either that or lose my sweet mind, you know? I had to work, but everything outside of that got cut, for the first six months. Today, we still have a relatively unbusy life, and I like it that way. I recently wrote about it in this post:

http://sundayschoolrebel.typepad.com/sundayschoolrebel/2010/06/lately-if-i-pick-up-anything-devotional-in-nature-its-my-copy-of-frederick-buechners-listening-to-your-life-years-ago-my.html

Sometimes I think we just got lucky with a kid who is good to play by himself. We don’t cart him from the zoo to the library to the playground to keep him entertained. I do make special efforts to do things outside of the house (since we can so easily stay home); but it’s more of a once-a-week thing.

By: Worship, breastfeeding, and shifting that paradigm « mama:monk

Worship, breastfeeding, and shifting that paradigm « mama:monk — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:32:53 +0000

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