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Archive for the 'Parenting' Category

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• On Motherhood | May 11 2008

  My wife, Rev. Lady Bella Sundancer, wrote a deep, insightful guest post for Hawk’s Cry on motherhood as a counterpart to my previous post On Fatherhood. Consider it her Mother’s Day present to Pagan families. I trust you will find it as enlightening as I have.
  My three children test me in ways I never thought [...]

• On Fatherhood | Apr 27 2008

  I am a father of three. As such, I struggle with the role I play in their lives and our relationship. Our society today does not understand the father. The “ideal” father today is sensitive and encouraging, we are told. He is not punishing or demanding, as fathers were portrayed prior to the 1960s. The [...]

• Poop Mural and the Gods Said “HONK!” | Apr 15 2008

  Our children offer us the most interesting perspectives on spirituality. The Diva and the Warrior gave us such insights lately that my wife, Bella, and I had to stop and think.
  Poop Mural
  Our five-year-old Diva has complained at various times about monsters in her bedroom closet, which we believe. There is a negative energy that resides [...]

• Healing Children | Mar 30 2008

  Our son, the Warrior, injured himself when he was seventeen months old. He reached up to a kitchen counter and pulled a cup of hot tea onto himself, causing second-degree burns. It caused a great deal of trauma. The burn itself, the ride in the ambulance to the hospital, the hospital treatment, and the constant changing of bandages when he got home. Since he was a young child, he had to endure the stress of the Child “Protection” Service interrogations with all of us as well, even though they found no abuse occurred. It was a significant event that changed him on many levels.

• Children and Past Lives | Mar 09 2008

  Freud said that babies are born with minds of a blank slate, or tabula rasa. This is the predominant belief in our society, along with the belief that a person only lives a single life. In contrast, most Pagans believe that we live many lives and that the experiences in our past lives affect our current life.

  A lot of questions still exist on how past lives affect us, especially as children. What determines how a child will act or feel as they grow up? How will they develop into adults?

• Should Children be Raised as Witches? | Apr 29 2007

  There is great fear within the Pagan/Wiccan community of mixing children and Witchcraft. One common reason is that some people think that it is morally wrong to raise children in any faith and teach it to them. They feel that it is a form of brainwashing. I think their feeling this way is a form of rejection or rebellion against the faith that their parents raised them in. I disagree with this idea of deliberately excluding children from religious training due to a fear of brainwashing or indoctrination. [...]