Consultant – Page 8 – Sonoma Parenting 101

Welcome to the Podcasts of Sonoma Parenting 101.

My wish is to connect with parents in a meaningful way and to inform adults who are involved and interested in child rearing. I simply want to bring some awareness to certain topics: Here are a few facts and this is why they matter to children.

Every mother and father is on a personal journey called parenting. It helps to have a map for this journey. While we learn and evolve over years in our motherly and fatherly role, we fill in some blanks on this map and we erase and modify certain landmarks.

I enjoy talking about early child development and I care about sharing my experiences with you.

Please send your questions and comments to:

ECE@sonomaparenting101.com

Thanks for listening!

What is real?

I suppose it’s harmless enough for a yearning to be so strong that what you need becomes very real in some corner of your heart. Picasso said: “Everything you can imagine is real.”

And I understand that.

In a sense we make up all our relatives, though. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and the rest. Especially if they are dead or distant. We take what we know, which isn’t ever the whole story, and we add it to what we wish and need, and stitch it together into some kind of family quilt to wrap up in on our mental couch.

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I’m not sure why it must be so, but it is.

It helps to know this.

Robert Fulghum, 1988

Author: Consultant

The Toddler Years

The Infant Year

Fundamental Needs of Man

Communication Styles

Family Characteristics

Brain Development for the very young child

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Down To Earth