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July 2015

July 14, 2015

Sharing Our Spiritual Path With Our Children, Part 2 of 4

Taffy Dugan writes about sharing mythology, nature walks, and daily prayers with kids.

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Ritual after a traumatic birth

It can be devastating when birth doesn't go as planned.

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Kids Can Charm the Plow

Honoring the earth is especially important when planting-time begins. This chant to the tune of...

January 22, 2015

5 Ideas for Kids’ Imbolc Fun

Imbolc is often an overlooked holiday, but with these 5 fun ideas kids won't be...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

10 Great Reads of December on Paganism, parenting, social justice, and celebrating the season

A monthly round-up of the best links shared and discussed on our active Facebook and...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Enchanted Composting

Composting has done more to create a sense of intimacy with the land than our...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Of Children, Paint, and Unplanned Sabbats

Every Sabbat, I read other people's plans and suggestions for celebrating with children, think about...

September 17, 2014

A Pagan Thanksgiving

On the autumn equinox, my family practices a ritual of thanksgiving for all the good...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Review: Divorcing a Real Witch

It inspired me to think about divorce as a process of change, something we Pagans...

July 14, 2014

Book Notes: Mothering From Your Center

Mothering From Your Center is a book focused on energy tools for pregnancy and birth...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

Our Top 5 Posts #Patheos5Yrs

In honor of these milestones, here are the 5 most popular Pagan Families posts (by...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

From child to parent – growing up in a Pagan family

Everyone, my parents believed, should know how to sing and dance, and they abhorred waste...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

December Link Round-Up: News, Reading, and Opportunities

First some blog business, then the link round-up!

December 18, 2013

September 2013

September 05, 2013

Not Everyone Appreciated Our Rite of Passage – A Response

Niki Whiting responds to criticisms that she unnecessarily scared her child during his 'coming of...

September 05, 2013

August link round-up: home birth, cesarean birth, body image after birth and more…

In August we read articles about home birth, cesarean birth, body image, raising Pagan children,...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

What Pagan Families Can Learn From Unitarian Universalists

I have learned so much from Unitarian Universalists in terms of including children... I learned...

August 21, 2013

Rituals for a 5-Year-Old

Niki Whiting describes how she and her husband planned a ritual to celebrate their 5-year-old's...

August 08, 2013

Link round-up

It's time for a round-up of the best links shared on the Pagan Families Facebook...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

Blessing the Wait to Become an Adoptive Parent

“You are invited to my Blessing Wait… Why: because we are still waiting for a...

July 08, 2013

Burying My Eggs: A Ritual to Accept Infertility

“I want to hear about it!” I said, “And remind me, when we meet, to...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

Becoming a Woman – Book Review

I really wish I'd had a book on what it means to become a woman...

May 14, 2013

Four Simple Ways to Honor Spirit in Baby’s First Year

The good news is that tending your spirit and connecting with the divine can still...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Group Ritual to Acknowledge Miscarriage

I think it is crucial to remember that miscarriage is a birth event—sometimes a very,...

February 05, 2013

Rituals to Honor Miscarriage

There is no right or wrong way to plan a ritual or ceremony to acknowledge...

January 2013

January 08, 2013

Blessing Baby

I wanted the focus to be more on blessing the baby and, like in the...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Holidays After Loss: Spirit Babies Ceremony

Perhaps for the first time, we were not alone facing our grief. Isa said to...

December 05, 2012

Blessingways and the role of ritual

Many people are starved for ritual, but they may also be deeply scarred from rituals...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

October link round-up

I share a lot of great links and pictures on Facebook and Twitter. Here's some...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Seven Spiritual Habits to Set During Pregnancy

Fortunately, I dove into my spirituality during pregnancy and instinctively established some practices before the...