Happy Valentine's Day!

If I had a child to raise all over again....

If I had my child to raise over again
I'd build self-esteem first and the house later
I'd finger paint more and point the finger less
I would do less correcting and more connecting
I'd take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes
I would care to know less and know to care more
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites
I'd stop playing serious and seriously play
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars
I'd do more hugging and less tugging
I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often
I would be firm less often and affirm much more
I'd model less about the love of power
And more about the power of love.
Diane Loomans

Playing playdough is fun 
& creative.


Natures playdough recipe.

Live chat winners are......Garah, Melany, Sarah and Amber.

Thank you Annie Burnside for such a wonderful intuitive inspiring chat!
For anyone who missed it you can read the transcript here. 


Great heart felt deep questions ladies! Thanks to all who participated.


And the winners are......


Garah ~ You with the stars in your eyes children's picture book 
Melany ~ Blessed Elements T-Shirt. 
Sarah ~ Soul To Soul Parenting
Amber ~ Soul To Soul Parenting 


And we would also like to announce
Some Call It Natural has been picked using random.org to win....~ On my way to a happy life!


Please email Carol with your address to receive your prize. intunedparenting@gmail.com


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Today's The Day! Live Chat Tonight. 7:30 PM Eastern

Today is the day!

We are excited to announce we will be having a live chat with author Annie Burnside, M.ED. 

She will be here to talk about her new book Soul To Soul Parenting, dialog with you and answer your questions. 

~Thursday February 10th  7:30 PM Eastern~ 

Participate in this live event for a chance to win....

Prizes included but not limited too:

• Soul To Soul Parenting By: Annie Burnside, M.ED
• Free Thinking Human Being T-Shirt
• Blessed Elements T-Shirt
• M.A.S.S. 101 Mann Approaching Simple Soulutions Book. By: Stacy & Ed Toten
• Children'sPicture Book: You with the stars in your eyes By: Deepak Chopra 
• A beautiful handmade pin by Grace. She used felt, polymer clay, yarn and beads.  Hand embroidered. These pins are all hand made and the faces are done by hand and not from a mold .
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Winners will be chosen randomly and will be posted after live event.

 
 

Please share this event and time with your friends.

Live Event Sponsored By:

Intentional Conscious Parenting

Blessed Elements Going Green

Twisted Scavenger

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Interview With Annie Burnside M.ED Author Of Soul To Soul Parenting.

We recently had the privilege of interviewing Annie Burnside, M.ED author of Soul To Soul Parenting. Enjoy!

1. What is the title of your book? Tell us a bit about it.
Soul to Soul Parenting: A Guide to Raising a Spiritually Conscious Family provides a framework for parents who desire to infuse greater spiritual awareness into everyday life within their own family. It offers 22 methods and 15 universal, life-affirming themes to get started, including many tools—such as books, music, movies, and activities.

2. Tell us a little about your background.  

Always a reflective child, I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, but have lived in the Chicago-area for the past eighteen years. I graduated from DePauw University in Indiana and received my Masters in Education from DePaul University. I am a former elementary school teacher who took ten years off to raise my three children, now ages 14, 12 and 10. I re-entered the workforce as a professional soul nurturer—one who helps others awaken to their own truth in all aspects of life by providing the tools and encouragement to look more closely at their inner world.

3. You call yourself a soul nurturer; can you explain that title? 

Officially, I have been a soul nurturer for over five years. I created it as a career as soul nurturing has always been the most natural aspect of who I am. A soul nurturer helps others awaken to their own truth in all aspects of life by providing the tools and encouragement to look more closely at their inner world. She assists others in viewing their life from an expanded perspective by helping them to remember their divine, creative, intuitive, eternal nature and how to integrate this knowing into their life choices. A soul nurturer's primary role is to inspire others to listen to the voice of their own soul so that direct divine connection can become fully accessible within daily reality.

4. Is this your first book? Yes!

5. What led you to write Soul to Soul Parenting? 

Spiritual development/personal growth has been my greatest passion since I was nineteen. As it has brought such joy , purpose, gratitude and liberation to be truly comfortable within my own skin, I desired to take my children with me on the journey. I began to break down my spiritual insights and teachings into digestible bites for my own children, and conscious parenting became the most important aspect of what we offered them. Other parents noticed and started asking for guidance so I began speaking on the topic locally. Soon it became apparent that there was a book inside of me ready to emerge.

6. What was the most challenging part of writing the book?  

The most challenging part of the entire process was finding an agent and then the publisher. Through referrals I found an agent, and he found my publisher. It took several months for both. I trusted the process and through many rejections and rewrites uncovered much about myself that I will always cherish. The whole process has been very empowering.

7.  For you Annie, what is the difference between soul to soul parenting and traditional parenting?

I feel that soul to soul parenting seeks to move beyond simply the physical realm to understand the child from an energetic (soul) perspective, too. The current human suit is viewed as only one aspect of the child’s totality as an eternal, infinite spiritual being on one leg of his/her journey. From this widened vantage point, everything is different—there is a core belief that there is so much more to the child and all of life than what meets the eye, and the parent becomes willing to allow  that larger perspective in regards to life choices, priorities, thoughts, words and deeds. In other words, in soul to soul relationships, one feels for the underlying texture of all that occurs rather than simply the rational, socially acceptable aspect of it.

8. Why do you think conscious or soul to soul parenting is on the rise now? 

I think conscious parenting is on the rise because more and more parents themselves are becoming self-aware and honoring their authenticity. Due to the joy, freedom and empowerment derived from such interior knowing, parents desire, above all else for their children, self-realization and comfortability within their own skin. There is a growing belief in the world today that enlightenment is very possible for all who deeply desire it. Many parents are seeing that the family unit offers a magnificent opportunity for personal growth in both the parent and the child, simultaneously. We are wonderfully clear mirrors for one another, and parents are beginning to utilize family relationships as the gift that they truly are as we   move into wholeness. Parents desire a safe place for children to work through challenges and release negative emotions as they occur rather than stuff down, deny or save for later creating a tremendous amount of unnecessary baggage and psychic debris. Instead there is a growing shift to help children live true as soon as possible so that children can get on with what they came here to offer the world in their own special way. Essentially, as parents become more conscious, they cannot help but desire that for their children. The grandest hope for their children is not that they fill their lives with endless accomplishments that require a total focus on doing, but rather that they come to know themselves experientially as a unique part of the divine whole through an increasing number of moments of pure being—illumination.

9. What are you reading right now? 

I am reading The Soul’s Journey: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born by Robert Schwartz, a fantastic book about the soul agenda 

of which we are often not consciously aware of until we choose to dig a little deeper through self-exploration and inner work. This book, like so many others in the metaphysical field, dramatically shifts the way we perceive ourselves, our children, and the world at large opening us to new possibilities. I have been reading parts of it aloud excitedly to my family, and my fourteen year-old daughter will 

be reading it next.

Thank you Annie for sharing an insight into who you are and your inspirational new book with us!


Carol Lawrence & Stacy Toten

Join us for a live chat with Annie Burnside, M.ED Thursday Feb. 10th At 7:30 PM Eastern In Our BlogFrog Community.  Everyone is welcome. 

~ Prizes! ~

The Universe's Birthday Cake By Annie Burnside M.ED

While we were reading Annie's new book Soul To Soul Parenting . One of our favorite chapters among many was Oneness and Individuation.


In this chapter Annie shares this beautiful analogy:


"This analogy was taught to me by my spiritual mentors and is a great way to explain to children, in simple terms, the far-reaching concept of oneness. First, we have our children imagine the biggest, grandest birthday cake ever. We call it the Universe's Birthday Cake. On this cake, there are trillions of beautiful candles aglow with individual flames. The individual flames are all made of the same fire and come from the same source. Each flame represents an individual soul and the whole cake represents God. You see different aspects of the cake depending on your point of view. When you look at the cake from close up, you recognize all of its individual parts, but when you look at the birthday cake as a whole from a slightly different perspective, you can see the one powerful light that emanates from the cake. This all encompassing glow, which is the one true light shining so brightly from the cake, is God; and we, as the individual flames, are each as essential, unique part of the overall glow, that is the creator." ~ Annie Burnside, M.ED


Join us for our live chat with Annie Burnside M.ED This Thursday February 10th. 7:30 PM Eastern Time. Bring your questions, meet new parents and participate for a chance to win a prize. 

Our Live Chat Will Take Place Right Here On Our Blog In Our BlogFrog Community.

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Soul To Soul Parenting A Guide To Raising A Spiritually Conscious FAMILY

Soul To Soul Parenting A guide To Raising A Spiritually Conscious Family By Annie Burnside, M.Ed.


Soul To Soul Parenting is jam packed with spiritual information, engaging family activities and universal tools. A superb guide to formulate a deliberate family foundation that can carry on generations to generations.There's enough information to jump start any family on a conscious parenting path.


You'll soon see why Annie Burnside has been touted as the Eckhart Tolle of parenting!


Review By: Stacy Toten & Carol Lawrence

“Soul to Soul Parenting is a book whose time has come. It’s terrific!” Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of NY Times bestsellers:Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause




“Annie Burnside is the Eckhart Tolle of Parenting.” William Gladstone, author of Tapping the Source and The Twelve

"Soul to Soul Parenting is an inspiring and empowering book for parents who desire to raise spiritually conscious children on a daily basis in their own home. Annie encourages all parents to trust themselves to model authenticity, self-love, inner-knowing, deep joy and much more for their children, so that they may actively participate in the shift to higher consciousness occurring in our world today." Sonia Choquette, NY Times best-selling author


Join Annie Burnside in our Intentional Conscious Parenting BlogFrog Community Thursday February 10th For A Live Chat! 7:30 PM Eastern Time.
We hope you won't miss out on our first live author chat! Bring your questions, meet new parents and participate for a chance to win prizes! Winners will be announced after the live chat.


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You With The Stars In Your Eyes..A little girl's glimpse at Cosmic Consciousness Review

You with the stars in your eyes ~ A Little Girl's Glimpse At Cosmic Consciousness By Deepak Chopra


With the help of the moon, In all her glory she comes down and takes a stroll on the beach with Tara and her grandfather.


You with the stars in your eyes provides a brilliant way to look at life and how everything we see is our own self in a different form. 


Deepak Chopra's first children's picture book is a one of a kind that teaches the interconnectedness and oneness of us all.


You with the stars in your eyes is a must have for any conscious parenting library. 


Dave Zaboski a former animator for Disney illustrates an original stunning masterpiece.



A copy of You with the stars in your eyes will be given away during our live chat Thursday night.




Previous review & giveaway of Deepak Chopra & Kristina Tracy's newest children's book On My To A Happy Life?

Live Chat With Annie Burnside, M.ED. Author Of Soul To Soul Parenting 2/10/2011

Mark your calendars......

We are excited to announce we will be having a live chat event with author Annie Burnside, M.ED.  in our BlogFrog Community. Annie will be here to talk about her new book Soul To Soul Parenting ~ A Guide to Raising a Spiritually Conscious FAMILY, dialog with you and answer any parenting questions you may have. 

~Thursday February 10th  7:30 PM Eastern~ 

Participate in this live event for a chance to win....

Prizes included but not limited too:

• Soul To Soul Parenting By: Annie Burnside, M.ED
• Free Thinking Human Being T-Shirt
• Blessed Elements T-Shirt
• M.A.S.S. 101 Mann Approaching Simple Soulutions Book. By: Stacy & George Toten
• Children's Book: You with the stars in your eyes By: Deepak Chopra 

Winners will be chosen randomly and will be posted after live event.

 

We appreciate you sharing our first live author event with your friends, on facebook, twitter, etc. 

Thanks!

Live Event Sponsored By:

Intentional Conscious Parenting

Blessed Elements Going Green

Twisted Scavenger

If you would like to donate a prize and sponsor this event contact Carol at intunedparenting@gmail.com

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We Won The Stylish Blogger Award

We are honored to have won the Stylish Blogger Award from Vedette creator and writer of  Journey Through A Fulfilling Life ~ The Magical Story Of A Pagan Unschooling Family.
Be sure to try out Vedette's Lavender Cookie Recipe. Thank you Vedette.

This is a pay if forward award.
There are 4 duties to perform to receive this award:


1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award  



2. Share 7 things about yourself:
This blog is co-authored by Stacy and Carol so we'll share a little bit about both of us.


1. Carol loves the color PINK.
2. Stacy loves to cook.
3. We both love to scrapbook. 
4. Carol loves watching the Green Bay Packers and is having a Super Bowl Party!
5. Stacy grew up going to Disney Land a lot.
6. We both were extras in the movie Mars Attacks.
7. Carol is reading around 12 books right now. 


3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers 
I have to say this was a very hard choice. We follow so many great blogs, there's so much new talent out there! Here's the blogs we whittled our choices down too.


1. Tantrums, Troubles and Treasures

2. Blessed Elements Going Green
3. Mama Naturale4. Mommy Pants5. 6. 7. 8. Fathering Now ~A call to arms to engage Life and to Father in the Now9. Marriage, Motherhood & Mental Health ~ Our lives, our babies, our relationships.10. 11.  The Shaded Shadows!!!12. Transplanted Thoughts 4 boys, 3 liver transplants...Life is still funny. 13. Living it up in bankrupt California.14. The Wheelchair Mommy15. KM Kirby Napkins
Our BlogFrog Community is hopping right along and we'd love for you to join us! 

Have a conscious parenting question? Email your question to Carol & Stacy at intunedparenting@gmail.com


Review & Giveaway coming soon.

Have you seen the newest ebook news? $1 Billion in sales predicted for 2011

For all my fellow authors I wanted to make sure you saw this article! I'm embarking on an adventure of writing an ebook soon.

*Do you have any tips?

*Where's a good place to get an ebook cover?

*Does it cost to make an ebook?

*Have you written an informative article about writing ebooks? Please share your link if you have.

Ebook sales headed for $1 billion | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times