My father died suddenly when I was 29 years old; I was 33 years old when I gave birth to my first daughter. I had a close connection with my Dad. I guess after someone dies, you’ll naturally imagine that if they were still here life would be perfect. I’m sure in reality it wouldn’tContinue reading “Poem About Holding On To Someone After Their Death”
Category Archives: Poems
Poem: No Contact With Narcissistic Parent
I’ve mentioned previously my choice to go no contact with my Mum. This one came from a place of anger and sadness at feeling misunderstood about why I was no contact with my mum. I guess you could say, a lifetime of feeling shunned and ashamed, scared and unloved can’t be explained in a sentenceContinue reading “Poem: No Contact With Narcissistic Parent”
Home Educating Poem: What The First Year Taught Us
Although I’m writing this in 2025, with over 3 years unschooling under the belt, I found all my old poems the other day. This is one I wrote when we reached the first year of home educating milestone. That first year taught me such a lot, so I guess you could say homeschooling is notContinue reading “Home Educating Poem: What The First Year Taught Us”
Poem: Challenging Times With Multiple Young Kids
I wrote this poem two years ago, when my oldest was 6 years old and my youngest (twins) were 4 years old. I didn’t have, and still don’t have, a support network or ‘village’. It has been ‘intense’, and the intensity is rarely talked about among other parents. Perhaps they have family to help? PerhapsContinue reading “Poem: Challenging Times With Multiple Young Kids”
Y(O)UR WORLD: Poem Explaining To Children About Why We Homeschool
My daughter’s best friend is a local school girl. That school girl took me by surprise recently and asked why I chose not to send our children to school. I did not know how to explain. On the back of that conversation, I wrote this poem trying to consider the key reasons we unschool. ItContinue reading “Y(O)UR WORLD: Poem Explaining To Children About Why We Homeschool”
Thumb Sucking Poem: The Little Comforter
I’ve been through the roller coaster of emotions regarding my daughter’s thumb sucking habit. It has been one of the toughest triggers for me, which I found new methods to help me deal with those tough emotions. Although I’m in a much better place about it, I still sometimes mess up by saying things likeContinue reading “Thumb Sucking Poem: The Little Comforter”
Let Me Rest In Peace, My Gentle Dad
I’ve been thinking about my Dad a lot recently. Sometimes I read through previous poems to help identify and release my feelings about his death. I found this poem I wrote around a year ago. I realised how many other like minded parents view that you should not let your emotions be affected by anotherContinue reading “Let Me Rest In Peace, My Gentle Dad”
Poem About Working Through Childhood Trauma
My last blog post was about dealing with my childhood trauma by releasing my fears. I wrote that post hopeful that I wouldn’t find myself re-triggered by my daughter’s thumb sucking. I had a few moments where I felt overwhelmed again, and I went back through the process written in my last blog post. IContinue reading “Poem About Working Through Childhood Trauma”
Poem: Premature Twin in Intensive Care
Having one twin in intensive care, while you and the other twin are in another place, is simply soul destroying. You have overwhelming pain that make it nearly impossible to move without help. This makes it impossible to go and visit your twin in intensive care very much. You have to convince yourself that theContinue reading “Poem: Premature Twin in Intensive Care”
Poems: About My Gentle Dad
There is the well known proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child”. Why does this saying exist? Why do villages not seem common anymore? Do we need a village to be a gentle parent? How can we create our own village? I refer to a poem about my Dad which I wroteContinue reading “Poems: About My Gentle Dad”
Gentle Parent 