Raising Parents Inc.

21/05/2025

Whether you’re in a bungalow rental in Ottawa or a multi-story home in Boston, bringing a baby into your space means seeing your home in a new light—often a foot off the ground. From unexpected stair drops to coffee table corners, hazards can hide in plain sight. To help parents baby-proof without feeling overwhelmed or sacrificing style, Redfin asked doulas, therapists, pediatric experts, home professionals --AND ME!-- to share their top safety tips. Here’s what they had to say:

Expert-backed tips on how to baby-proof your house safely, stylishly, and without getting overwhelmed.

21/03/2025

✨ Parenting with Purpose ✨

Feeling overwhelmed by the daily chaos of parenting? Take a deep breath. 🌿 This season, let’s focus on what truly matters.

In just a few minutes, you can realign your parenting goals and create more meaningful moments with your child. ❤️

✅ Define your core values
✅ Identify what’s holding you back
✅ Set a simple, powerful intention
✅ Make small changes with BIG impact

Parenting doesn’t have to feel like a constant struggle. It’s about purpose, presence, and love. 💕

🌟 Read the full blog here 👉 https://www.raisingparents.net/linda-s-blog/parenting-with-purpose 🌟

03/01/2025

Scrolling through social media & parenting groups, I am overcome with a strong feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Initially, I think it’s impatience: the same questions year after year, the same misinformation, distortions and fear mongering:

‘There is something wrong with the children’

moves quickly on to

“The children are wrong”

which really aligns with the undercurrent called

“It’s the parent’s fault.’ –usually, but not always, the mother.

It’s okay, she can blame her mother, and so on, up the generations...
..but it’s not impatience...

...it’s dread...

More innocent, perfect, healthy, NORMAL children are going to bear the brunt of this. This misinformation. This cultural lie. This popular, persistent, professionally-supported faulty belief about children, what they need, and how evil they are, automatically.

So much of it, really, comes down to that: children are evil. They must be, the unspoken belief says in so many ways, because otherwise they’d be:
• obedient • compliant • convenient
•quiet • orderly • placid
• helpful • cute
& not real
people
at all

Since they keep not being that ^^ they must be doing it on purpose, deciding, defiant, pathological, resistant to the good order of things, ‘testing’ us and behaving badly, making messes ‘for’ us to clean up, and being violent, aggressive, stubborn and recalcitrant to annoy and humiliate their families... right?

So, so wrong!

The chorus of voices parents face is so uniform, so critical, so undermining of their love and their instinct to nurture their child, that even they, innocent of the source of all this disordered belief, will promote the flawed thinking amongst themselves.

Starting today, I am reviving my ThriveParenting group as a place of peace and warmth for parents who need respite from the voices, and a place to talk about how others describe children and their motives, and to be further away from those who seek to shame parents who refuse –for any reason—to play along with the intensity of child hate in our world.

If you’re a parent or a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, teacher or coach or former child who wants OUT of the culture of disdain for our children, come along and join in a company of parents striving to help their children thrive... along with me.

Let’s get together and make this right for our children and their children... and then we can take over the world.

02/01/2025

✨ What if 2025 was the year you…

💬 Communicate clearly with your kids?

🌟 Create a home full of respect and cooperation?

🤝 Became the calm, confident parent you’ve always wanted to be?

Our parent communication course is your guide to making this vision a reality.

✅ Learn practical tools to transform how you talk to your kids.
✅ Discover what has been interfering with your kids understanding your communication.

🎁 New Year's Offer: The first 10 parents to enroll get an exclusive workbook to kickstart their 2025 parenting journey!

28/11/2024

Text reads:

"A child who can live outside 'conforming' is a child who dose not question 'am I loved?'" ~Linda Clement

What does 'I hate you' mean when it is said to an adult by a child?

~the child is angry
~the child feels safe
~the child expects to be heard and understood

Need more help understanding what your child's immature communication (and behaviour) means?

19/11/2024

✨☃️ Parents! ☃️✨

Are you dreading the upcoming holidays? Family obligations, the kids with a raging case of the Gimmies, being re-traumatized by all of the memories of disappointing or horrible holidays of the past, overwhelm at the task list and expectations from everywhere (family, neighbours, schools, work...)?

Would you like to make this holiday season peaceful and connected, instead?

Book a chat today to get started on transforming your family from conflict and chaos to joy and cooperation... (link in comments, for the algorithm 😁)

24/10/2024

"I translate child into adult for parents who are lying awake in bed at night afraid they're failing because of the struggles and conflicts that are happening in their houses... just because of the expectations and pressures of our society. It's not reasonable because these are genuinely good parents, and they're struggling because of what they just don't know.

"I help parents understand, from a child's perspective, what is being asked of them and how unreasonable it is... and how to create peaceful, cooperative families."

Someone asked me what I do today (she couldn't remember why she 'knew' we had to talk based on how I introduced myself in a networking meeting a few weeks ago...)

That is how I answered.

What do you do?

23/10/2024

Hey, have you put together your TED talk yet?

'Why would I do that?' you ask...

SO MANY reasons!

This is the topic I'm presenting at this Friday's Valley Women’s Association - Tri-City Chapter luncheon, and I would love to see lots of people there...

Chiara Sheila Andrea Louise Lisa Taimi Geneviève Becca Jackie Nita Julieta Riti Sandra Noemi Karen Charlotte Crystal

$45 for lunch for non-members... at Samz in PoCo... link to register (advance registration required) in comments...

25/09/2024

[text reads "If you don't want the truth, don't ask me. If you want something sugar coated, go eat a donut."]

It's fun to stay inside your comfort zone... but that's precisely NOT why you hire a coach to improve your game / life / parenting...

10/09/2024

Last week, I asked if you could imagine a family being peaceful and cooperative...

It received a lot of 😂 reactions, which makes me wonder:

What do you think is in the way of having peace and cooperation between siblings and between parents & kids?

01/09/2024

Can you imagine having a peaceful, cooperative home life? No sibling rivalry, no struggles over housework or homework, ease when transitioning to meals, bed, getting ready for school, heading out?

Do you think it's possible?

28/08/2024

What would it take for you to hire a parenting coach?

Courage or defeat?
Curiosity or frustration?
Aspirations or giving up?

People often say, 'Oh I know people who NEED you...'

I don't work with them... for a solid, impersonal reason:

They don't want to work with me. They think they're fine. They think they're smack in the middle of normal family life. They think working with a coach admits defeat.

I don't work with parents who feel totally defeated (ordinary 'worried in the middle of the night,' for sure)... I work with parents who

NEVER WANT TO FEEL DEFEATED.

The parents who hire me are courageous, aspiring, and curious: how could I do this better?

That is what I work with parents for... to find their 'better.'

Sometimes 'better than their parents' and sometimes 'better than our society' but often just 'better than I've reached on my own.'

Would you hire a parenting coach? If not, why?

(caption for image: 'No problem can be solved with the same level of consciousness that created it' [finger pointing to the quote] This sums up why certain situations don't work out in our favour even though we 'tried everything.' ~ Christie Ann Pagnotta... )