Comments on: My barometer of slow http://slowfamilyliving.com/2009/03/my-barometer/ Slow Family Living Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:12:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: admin http://slowfamilyliving.com/2009/03/my-barometer/comment-page-1/#comment-132 admin Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:03:06 +0000 http://slowfamilyliving.com/?p=409#comment-132 Yes, totally gut. I whole-heartedly agree! My oldest now is eleven and is learning and understanding the need to hear and heed her gut. I guess marrying the child's gut with the family's needs and the parents' gut is the ongoing delicate balancing act. Yes, totally gut. I whole-heartedly agree! My oldest now is eleven and is learning and understanding the need to hear and heed her gut. I guess marrying the child’s gut with the family’s needs and the parents’ gut is the ongoing delicate balancing act.

]]> By: Christine Louise Hohlbaum http://slowfamilyliving.com/2009/03/my-barometer/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Christine Louise Hohlbaum Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:50:10 +0000 http://slowfamilyliving.com/?p=409#comment-131 What a great question, Bernadette! I do indeed have a Slow barometer. Typically, I plan no more than two appointments a day. While it is not always practical, that is my measuring stick for whether life feels slow or not. Living more mindfully than ever, I am more willing now to reschedule events to fit our slower pace of life. Regarding your children's school system - that resonates with me, too. We have the option of sending our daughter to four different high schools. Depending on her musical, scientific or linguistic leanings, she could choose one of three that are all a 40-minute busride away. The closest, most convenient (4th) school seems to make the most sense from a logistical standpoint. But shouldn't her slow barometer also include her gut feeling? The best advice we've received was from an eleven-year-old boy who attends the science high school. "Go with your gut. If it feels right, it will be." You've got to love kids. They are sooooo amazing!! XXOO ~Christine What a great question, Bernadette! I do indeed have a Slow barometer. Typically, I plan no more than two appointments a day. While it is not always practical, that is my measuring stick for whether life feels slow or not. Living more mindfully than ever, I am more willing now to reschedule events to fit our slower pace of life.

Regarding your children’s school system – that resonates with me, too. We have the option of sending our daughter to four different high schools. Depending on her musical, scientific or linguistic leanings, she could choose one of three that are all a 40-minute busride away. The closest, most convenient (4th) school seems to make the most sense from a logistical standpoint.

But shouldn’t her slow barometer also include her gut feeling? The best advice we’ve received was from an eleven-year-old boy who attends the science high school.

“Go with your gut. If it feels right, it will be.”

You’ve got to love kids. They are sooooo amazing!!
XXOO ~Christine

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