Authentic Parenting
Aware Parenting
Attachment Parenting
Love & Logic
Child Training
Helicopter, Gender Neutral, Unparenting, Tough Love, Teacup, Baby-wise, Conditional, Unconditional, and even, Hypnosis Parenting (no, I’m not joking).

I imagine many of you might have a few to add to the list, either entirely unique or at the very least, a modification or derivative of one of the above. And so, I might as well throw one more at ya!  Enter Sentient Parenting.  I just made it up!  Or so I thought.

Drat… sentientparenting.com already exists.. and here I was sure I had stumbled upon something truly my own.  Something truly from the depths of me.  Something that encompasses and explains all the theories!  The Theory of Everything (on child raising that is).

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SENTIENT: Conscious
able to recognize, alert, perceptive, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, in on, in the right mind, informed, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, recognizing,responsive, seeing, sensitive to, understanding,watchful

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This concept comes from my depths, it’s also one that until recently I didn’t realize had taken real form in my head. I hadn’t composed an inclusive understanding of the entire concept I seem to house in my mind concerning children, childhood, and parenting them as a whole before.  I haven’t been able to wholly align myself with any of the aforementioned “styles”.  So, maybe this angle will suit me better.

The entire point of me creating this blog is to educate and to find others that share my thoughts, understanding, and approach.  However, the content found at sentientparenting.com isn’t exactly what I had in mind… I guess maybe my take on this is mine after all.

That said, I’ll try to wrap up what I think Sentient Parenting is in a few words, thanks to the thesaurus and our abundant language.  I’ll sort out the more pertinent concepts and terms in a separate post, but for now, just take a moment and look at just exactly how many associated thoughts there actually are with sentience. Also note those which are not synonymous.

Main Entry: cognizant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aware
Synonyms:
acquainted, alive, awake, conscious, informed, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, observant, perceptive
Antonyms: ignorant, unaware, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowledgeable, unwitting

Main Entry: conscious
Definition: alert, awake
Synonyms: able to recognize, acquainted, assured, attentive, aware, certain, cognizant, discerning, informed, keen, knowing, known, mindful, noticing, noting, observing, perceiving, percipient, recognizing, remarking, responsive, seeing, sensible, sensitive to, sentient , supraliminal, sure, understanding, vigilant, watchful,
Antonyms: ignorant, impassive, indifferent, senseless, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unresponsive

Main Entry: responsive
Definition: quick to react
Synonyms: acknowledging, active, answering, awake, aware, compassionate, conscious, forthcoming, impressionable, influenceable, kindhearted, open, passionate, perceptive, persuadable, reactive, receptive, replying, respondent, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient , sharp, softhearted, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted
Antonyms: insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible

Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Ok then… get it?