There was an article in Sunday’s Newark Star Ledger about the move toward Slow Parenting and Slow Family Living. I am excited to get the nod from my beautiful motherland where I still have great attachment and many friends and family. You can read the article here…

The one thing that was missed in the story is the fact that Carrie and I are not two moms, as was stated. Rather we are one mom of four kids and one pre- and perinatal psychologist. I say this because I think this combination is really the heart of our collaboration. This blending of our experience and training offers the collective knowledge we hold of both the scientific and the practical sides of childhood development and family life. From our passion for all our work encompasses, came the formation of Slow Family Living.

When we sat down together to determine just what it was we were offering with Slow Family Living we came up with this…

We are offering a way of thinking about, seeing and implementing family life. We provide the science, the practicals and the lens for understanding, believing and appreciating the richness of building and maintaining lifelong family connections. We want people to see that family life can be the well where members can go to fill up and to have fun. We offer tools, support and inspiration that guide people in slowing down, connecting and enjoying life as individuals and within the family.

If this is your first time on our site, we hope you will browse around and see what we are offering and why. If you are interested in finding out more about your own Slow Family Living, please download our free Slow Family Living workbook or our Family Mission Statement workbook – both available by clicking the buttons in the sidebar.

If you need guidance or inspiration in working through the Slow Family Living workbook, please join us Monday night, April 20th from 8-10 pm central time via teleclass. We’d love to have you.

We are both extremely passionate about helping families truly find the goodness in family life. We strive to help families live an intentional family living that resonates with how they envision a connected family life to be. We could not imagine more heartfelt work. We are grateful you are here and we’d love to hear your thoughts on ways you have found to slow down, connect and enjoy your own family life.

1. A mission will bring you to a clear understanding of how you want family life to unfold.

2. It will serve as a reminder of who you are as a family.

3.  It allows you to live your family life with a vision of why you started a family in the first place and where you want it to go.

4. It lets your children know that you are completely committed to them and to family life.

5. It tells each member and the world, “This is how and why we exist as a family. We have a unique purpose for being together.”

6. It helps all the members of the family see the family as an entity and not just as separate individuals sharing a household and each going their own way. As your children grow and start gaining independence it will be even more grounding for them and for the family as a whole if everyone has a clear vision of the family’s mission.

7. It will give everyone the confidence to step out into the world with a strong sense of who they are and where they come from. A family mission statement helps build a sustainable bond between family members that can help foster a lifelong connection.

8. It will serve as a reminder to each member of the family that you are all representatives of the family — when you are together and when you are apart.

Click here to download your own Family Mission Statement Workbook.