in case you wondered

More snow today! Even though my garden here in Maine is still under two feet of snow, it is calling to me. I bought this year's morning glory seeds the other day.

The picture on the seed package reminded me of this great picture of last year's morning glories in my yard.

This picture of the morning glories in my yard reminded me that people always ask, " Is that your garden in the background of the picture of you on your website and on the back of your book?" I always have to say, "No, that picture was taken at Colonial Williamsburg."

This made me think that I should post this picture of my real back yard. Noticing my woodpile waiting to be stacked, in this picture of my real backyard, reminded me that this picture was taken in September.

September always makes me think of birth because my first child was born in September. Birth reminds me that I get to announce that my first born daughter, Leah, and her husband Steve, are expecting their first child this September. This means I'm going to be a Gramma again in September, and you know..... if you give a Gramma an audience she will tell you about her grandchildren.

Quotes from Michael Brown's Book

I love quotes. I collect them in journals and I put them up around my home and office to keep myself inspired. As I continue to read Michael Brown's words in The Presence Process I keep underlining and underlining. The following quotes are ones that I underlined AND starred in my book because they make it clearer why we parent best when we do our own healing work.

"The nature of this world is that what we do not deal with is automatically picked up and carried by our children through an imprinting process."

"As we integrate our childhood memories, we automatically release our own children from having to carry our baggage."

I am now recommending The Presence Process as the next most important parenting book. Connection Parenting teaches us how to connect with our children. The Presence Process teaches us how to do our healing work so we can be in the best place to connect with our children.

More on the Bumper sticker project and favorite books

My apologies to Connection Parenting supporters outside the US. I tried every way I could think of to make the Free "Have you connected with your child today?" bumper sticker available outside the US, but sending a self -addressed stamped envelope doesn't work (different postage) and sending a dollar to cover postage doesn't work (different currency), so if any one has any other ideas of how handle the postage part to make the Free bumper stickers available outside the US I'd love to hear from you. Orders have already started coming in here in the US and it is very exciting.

On a different note, the feedback I often get on Connection Parenting is that people LOVE the quote,
"Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhood."
Since many of us, who are parents and grandparents today, are trying to heal from our childhood I want to share with you my newest and best resources for that work. Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle's books, The Power of Now, and The New Earth, (which is now the number 1 best seller on Amazon) have been very important to my personal journey.

My newest and best yet resource is, The Presence Process by Michael Brown. I'm only on page 97 and I am so blown away by this book that I just have to tell people about it. Usually we have to hear about something at least three times before we pay any attention, so permit me to be the first, if I am the first. One of the most important steps we can take to support us in connection parenting is to do our own healing work. Michael Brown gives us the tools for the job of emotional healing. The more healing we do, the less healing our children will need to do.

Have you connected with your child today? BUMPER STICKERS

Have you ever been driving home at the end of the day feeling stressed and distracted and found yourself cracking up at a funny bumper sticker on the car in front of you at the red light? I have, and I love bumper stickers because they have the power to make us laugh, to make us think, and to inspire us.

At over three dollars a gallon I want more for my gas dollars than transportation; I want inspiration. We can all make a difference for families by turning our transportation vehicles into vehicles for inspiration. By the end of March the Connection Parenting bumper stickers,

"Have you connected with your child today?" will be available.

Wouldn't it make you feel good to think that your bumper sticker made life better for a parent and child? Imagine some harried mom or dad is driving home from work, on the way to pick up the kids, and sees your bumper sticker and thinks, "I haven't connected with my children today, but I will when I see them." My hope for these bumper stickers is that they will remind and inspire parents to connect with their children.

In the US you can get your free Connection Parenting bumper sticker by sending me a self -addressed, stamped envelope.

Pam Leo
Connection Parenting
Att: Magnolia
10 Old Orchard Road
Gorham, Maine 04038

Your first bumper sticker is free, additional ones may be purchased for $1.00 each. Please make checks payable to Pam Leo.

My eleven year old granddaughter , Magnolia, is handling the bumper sticker project as part of her home schooling. She will open the mail, enter your location in our Connection Parenting Goes Worldwide Journal, put a dot of where you live on our world map ( it would help us put you on our map if you would tell us the nearest large city to your address), and mail out your bumper sticker.

You may send your self-addressed stamped envelope now and we'll send your bumper sticker out to you just as soon as they arrive from the printer. There is a young girl here in Maine who is just waiting for that first letter to arrive so she can start her job.

I can't wait for the first time I come up behind a car at a red light that has a Connection Parenting Bumper sticker.