Blue Skies Gentle Parenting

11/21/2025

Quote by Sarah R. Moore, Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting

11/18/2025

11/15/2025

If our friend was upset, we’d sit with them, support them, hold space.
So why do so many believe children should be ignored when their emotions feel too big?

Children don’t need to be “left to deal with it.”
They need co-regulation — an adult who shares their calm when they can’t find their own.

Co-regulation isn’t rescuing or giving in.
It’s offering warmth, modelling coping, and guiding them through the overwhelm so they can learn to understand and express their feelings in healthy ways.

Simple to say… not always simple to do.
Especially when their meltdown triggers your own nervous system.
But connection teaches skills that isolation never will.

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11/15/2025

Your children are watching your relationship.
Every day, in ways both big and small, they are observing how you and your partner interact. They notice the tone of your voice when you speak to each other—whether it is gentle, harsh, dismissive, or loving. They see whether you show affection, whether through words, gestures, or actions, or if you hold back and create distance. They pay attention to how you talk about each other when others are around, and even when they are not—whether you speak with respect or criticize and demean.

They are watching how disagreements unfold. Do you handle conflict with patience, understanding, and compromise, or with anger, blame, and silence? These moments leave lasting impressions, teaching your children what love is and what they should accept in their own relationships.

Your kids are constantly learning, absorbing lessons about respect, compassion, and boundaries. They will carry these lessons into adulthood, shaping their expectations of love, communication, and emotional safety.

So work hard, every single day, to show them what a healthy, nurturing, and respectful relationship looks like. Your actions now are the blueprint for how they will love tomorrow.

11/15/2025

One day, our children will tell the story of what it felt like to grow up in our presence.

We are writing it in real time — in our tone, our pauses, our repairs.

Not every page will read the way we hoped.
Some paragraphs will be messy. Some lines we’ll wish we could take back.

But stories aren’t defined by a single page.
They’re shaped by the arc — by what we choose to write next.

When we apologise, we revise.
When we listen, we add space to the margins.
When we stay kind in hard moments, the plot steadies.

The story is still being written.
And from here on, we choose what it says —
more safety than judgment,
more presence than perfection,
and more love, than anything else. ❤️

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11/15/2025

Do you enjoy my posts about parenting? This post made the cut for my latest book. It’s a concept I’ve never seen before and I’m excited to be the first content creator to do this. I’ve taken my posts and created a book. The book is visually appealing and easy to read, just like when we scroll online or read a book to our child. You can read one post or a whole section. I know I’m bias but it is a must have for all parents who enjoy this page. It is also a way to pass on the knowledge you have gained from this account, to someone else.

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11/15/2025

We all wish setting a limit looked like:
➡️ “No” → instant cooperation

But in real life?
Setting a limit is rarely a straight line — and it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because children learn boundaries through connection, not compliance.

A realistic limit-setting moment might look like:
✔️ pushback
✔️ big feelings
✔️ validation
✔️ holding the limit
✔️ getting curious
✔️ working with your child, not against them

And eventually… cooperation arrives.

If it feels messy, emotional and repetitive — that’s parenting.
Limits stick best when they’re delivered with calm, empathy and consistency… not perfection.

✨ You’re not failing. You’re teaching.

11/15/2025

Night waking is a biological protection mechanism, not a flaw in your baby or parenting. Babies are created to wake for nourishment, comfort, connection, and regulation. Their brains and bodies are still developing, frequent waking keeps them safe and helps maintain milk supply, attachment, and hormone balance. We’ve normalized independent sleep so much that we’ve forgotten how biologically dependent infants are meant to be. They’re not “bad sleepers.” They’re human… wired for proximity and connection.

So all this to say, If your baby still wakes, you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re meeting a real need.💕

11/15/2025

It’s a powerful thing — the way a child starts to believe the words they hear about themselves.

The tone we use, the way our eyes soften, the stories we repeat — they become part of their inner world. And slowly, they grow into the way they’ve been seen.

The whispers that surround them — spoken in moments we barely notice — become their inner chorus…

And those quiet echoes become the story of who they believe themselves to be. ❤️

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11/15/2025

Did you know that World Nursery Rhyme Week is coming up between 10th-14th November, 2025?
There are so many advantages of sharing Nursery Rhymes with children.
And let’s not forget Nursery Rhymes from around the world. There are so many wonderful universal children’s rhymes.
Have you checked out Mama Lisa’s website. A treasure chest of multicultural & Nursery Rhymes in other languages ♥️
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https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=eh