Review by Susan Gaissert, The Expanding Life
I’ve been having a wonderful time exploring The
Natural Child Project web site, and one of my favorite products
available from this fine organization is their Parenting Cards.
Most people have favorite quotes on their refrigerator;
I know I do. And some of us frame special sayings and place them on end
tables in our homes. Others keep an inspirational article or quotation
folded up in their wallets. Parenting Cards provide something along
those lines.
Here’s how I see it: as unschoolers and/or
attachment-parenting advocates, we are on a different path from many
people around us. We need support, encouragement, and advice as much as
all parents do, but we cannot get it from the plethora of resources that
many other parents use - the books that say "Let her cry it
out," for example.
For us, Parenting Cards are a versatile way to keep the
kind of support we need always at our fingertips. In addition to putting
one in your wallet, or under your pillow, or inside your kitchen
cabinet, I like the idea of putting them all inside a big old cookie
jar. That way, you can just pluck one out when you’re feeling worried,
tired, or confused.
A Parenting Card is a candle in the darkness. When you
stop, breathe, and read one, you cannot help but be inspired to think -
about the path you’ve chosen and how best to travel it right at
this moment.
I highly recommend Parenting Cards. In fact, I believe
that no loving, child-centered, free-thinking home should be without
them.
