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‘The Gentle Parent’ Book Trailer and Tour Schedule

I’m so excited to share the release of The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline, the third book in the Little Hearts Handbook series! The first reviews are in, and The Gentle Parent has already received 5-Star ratings and been called “food for a gentle parent’s soul” and “reassuring, relevant, and relatable for parents with children […]

Crazy, Beautiful, Wonderful Life!

[By L.R.Knost, author of  Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood and Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages now available on Amazon and through other major retailers.]   ~The Story of Us~ A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby~Journey to Gentle Parenting Many, many years ago (25, to be exact!) […]

Toddler Fighting Sleep? 20 Peaceful Sleepy-Time Tips

[Portions reprinted from The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline by L.R.Knost due to be released November 2013.  Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood available on Amazon and through other major retailers.] Toddlers are infinitely curious little dynamos that […]

Helping Unique Learners Find Their Genius ♥

[From Raising Bookworms: Life, Learning, and Literacy by L.R.Knost available 2014; Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood now available on Amazon] Homeschooling a unique learner can be challenging simply because they don’t get the benefit of access to testing and professional support without a […]

Baby on the Way! 25 Tips to Prepare Children for a New Sibling

[By L.R.Knost, author of  Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood available on Amazon and through other major retailers.] Pregnancy is a time of introspection, excitement, and, often, anxiety for most new mamas. When those new mamas also have other small […]

Baby on the Way ~ 25 Tips to Prepare Your Child for a New Sibling

[By L.R.Knost, author of  Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood available on Amazon and through other major retailers.] Pregnancy is a time of introspection, excitement, and, often, anxiety for most new mamas. When those new mamas also have other small […]

Bridge Over Troubled Waters~Parenting a ‘Problem’ Child

[The Gentle Parent: Positive, Practical, Effective Discipline by L.R.Knost available November 2013; Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood now available on Amazon] We all have times that we struggle, when life gets hard, when stresses overtake us and the constant demands to grow and change and learn inherent in […]

Custom Cosleeper Sidecar!!!

[By L.R.Knost, author of  Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages and Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood available on Amazon and through other major retailers.] In addition to fixing our vehicles, finding the deal of the century on a new-but-broken front loading washer/dryer set that had been […]

Domestic Violence ~ Being the Voice for Voiceless Victims

I stood, frozen in shock, outside of the upscale bookstore where I would soon be signing my gentle parenting books and chatting with parents about alternatives to punishment-based parenting. A well-dressed young couple I’d spoken with just minutes before in a nearby pizzeria was getting into an expensive SUV several yards away from where I […]

Rethinking Tattling

[Portions reprinted from Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood by L.R.Knost. Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages also available through Amazon and other major retailers.] “She won’t share!” “He took my crayon!” “They won’t let me play with them!” “He looked at me!” “She poked me!” […]