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Friday, May 4th, 2012
The Secrets of Raising an Enlightened Child – Part III
By Sensei Tony Stultz
How to apply mindfulness around the difficult years of puberty. Around age eight or nine is when a child begins to transition from a magical way of perceiving the world to a more literal outlook.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
The Secrets of Raising an Enlightened Child — Part II
By Sensei Tony Stultz
In this particular stage between infancy and eight or nine years, our approach is to avoid indoctrination or rigidly applying the teachings. Rather we should seek to harmonize with the child’s natural inclinations. From birth to age four, we teach primarily by example because children of that age notice and imitate everything we do!
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Why I Won’t (Yet) Deconstruct Purim for my Kids
By Josh Ratner
Though Purim is generally presented as a light-hearted, festive tale, the holiday has a darker, more somber essence. But what is the appropriate age to introduce this to my kids?
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
How to Raise an Enlightened Child — Part I
By Sensei Tony Stultz
If there is one question that I am often asked as a Buddhist minister it is, “How can I raise an enlightened child?”
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Islam’s Take on Children and Kinship Ties
By Umm Salihah
Preserving kinship ties is considered to be a very important part of Islam…But doing so is not always as simple as it seems: running around to pull a meal together, trying to rugby-tackle the kids into bed whilst they are distracted by guests or having school or work the next morning, which is too few hours away.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Remembering Their Birth Mother’s Face
By Deanna Jones
My first Christmas with my Ethiopian children came 10 months after they were officially adopted into our family. During the year that we settled in, we learned that one of our daughters was still heavily grieving the loss of her mother two years earlier. One of the most difficult struggles for Ella was that she was starting to forget her mother’s face.
Alessandra Dobrin Khalsa
Alessandra Dobrin Khalsa was raised in New York and Amsterdam. She is a filmmaker and writer, and a co-founder of SeeThrough Films and Prana Projects. Alessandra lives in Santa Fe, NM, with her daughter Amrita, stepson Siri and her husband Ditta. Their approach to parenting draws on their backgrounds of Sikh tradition and yogic technology.
Deanna Jones
Deanna Jones is the author of the number one Amazon adoption book To Be a Mother and is the founder of Mother of the World (mothertheworld.org).
Sandra Lynn Hutchison
Sandra Lynn Hutchison is the author of two books: a book of poetry, The Art of Nesting (GR Books, Oxford: England, 2008) and a memoir about living in China in the prelude to the Tiananmen incident, Chinese Brushstrokes (Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, 1996). Her poetry, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Oxford anthology of stories about China, Chinese Ink, Western Pen (Oxford University Press, 2000). She serves as poetry editor for Puckerbrush Review. She lives with her husband and daughter in Orono, Maine, where she teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. They are raising their daughter Baha'i.
Jack and Helen Hamilton
Jack and Helen Hamilton have been married for ten years and have two daughters, Amber, aged 8 and Clover, 4. Jack is a freelance photographer and Helen is an actress and writer. Born and raised in South London, they continue to live and raise their own family there. They have been practising Tibetan Buddhists for around a decade, but both come from Christian backgrounds.Josh Ratner
Joshua Ratner is presently a rabbinical student in New York.
Originally hailing from San Diego, Joshua, his spouse, and their three
children currently live in Connecticut. Joshua worked as an attorney
for five years prior to starting rabbinical school. They are raising
their children as observant, progressive Jews.
Umm Salihah
Umm Salihah is a hijab-loving, working mum of three dirty-faced angels (Little Lady - 7, Little Man - 5, Gorgeous - 3 years) as well as being big sister to Long-Suffering sister, Fashionista sister, Kooky little sister and the Invisible Man who between them keep her sane and entertained. She is the lady of the house in a home full of children, extended relatives, in-laws, guests and friends and works full time in policy and service improvement in local government in England. She mainatins a personal blog at www.happymuslimah.com and is raising her children Muslim.Bonnie Schwartz
A lover of horses and dogs, Bonnie Schwartz lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband Gong and daughter Willow. The couple moved to New Mexico in 2003 from New York City, where Bonnie lived for two decades. The couple adopted Willow from Hubei Province, China, in 2007. The trio live with three beloved dogs (to maintain human-canine symmetry), and are about 10 miles from where their young dressage horse is boarded. Bonnie worked in magazine publishing as an editor and writer for most of her New York years, specializing in design and architecture, and has been testing out various alternative career paths since arriving in New Mexico. She is currently the property manager of the former Herb Ritts estate in Santa Fe for its new owners, learning all there is to know about plumbing, heating, landscaping, and identifying unusual bugs. In raising their daughter, Bonnie and Gong are exposing her both to Bonnie's Judaic background as well as the rites and rituals of Gong and Willow's Chinese heritage.
Doug McLean
Doug McLean works as a computer technician for a large company in Seattle, and is a Japanophile and linguistics hobbyist in his spare time. He is now the father of one three-year-old princess, and a husband to a loving and down-to-earth wife. In his spare time, he enjoys blogging at Japan: Life and Religion, as well as amateur writing on the side. They are raising their daughter Buddhist.
