This site came out of the Gentle Families Ireland community, which began as a Facebook group (first closed, now private). In the community, there are many fantastic conversations, shared info, support, love and learning in here that just get lost after about a week. Because the Facebook group is secret (to allow the sense of community to continue and preserve our gentle ethos), lots of our parenting perspectives aren't shared with our wider communities, and as a group we were concerned that we may lose new parents seeking support and solace in trying to parent in the way they believe to be most ethical.
We decided to set up a Gentle Families Ireland blog in order to make that reach out to the wider groups we were concerned we were missing, who might benefit from us sharing our thoughts, experiences, and chats. We have one or two posts a week from different people in the group, sometimes on the big conversations we have, sometimes on the small chats, sometimes on the way we try to parent respectfully, sometimes on the way it all goes horribly wrong! |