Welcome to House of Crow and White —A sacred parenting blog where I unpack cultural conditioning, honor sensitivity as a strength, and raise a free-feeling child without passing down the patterns that dimmed me.
This blog is my personal excavation site:
where I lovingly roast my own parenting,
dissect my conditioning like a frog in high school biology,
and put a flashlight (and occasionally a flamethrower) on the patterns I’m trying to break.
Not to slam anyone.
Not to shame the culture I was raised in.
And definitely not because I think I have it all figured out.
It’s because I’m sensitive — painfully, gloriously sensitive.
And after a lifetime of trying to toughen up and "be nice" and "just go along,"
I decided to aim that sensitivity like a laser instead of stuffing it down.
Here, I’m documenting what it feels like to raise a crow-hearted kid —
one who knows their "yes" and their "no,"
one who trusts their gut more than they trust adult approval,
one who won’t need 3 years of therapy just to say, "I don't want to wash dishes today."
A lot of what you’ll find here is stitched together from the everyday mess of real parenting — but it’s also deeply inspired by the writings in The Book of the Small, written by my husband, Sarlon White (available now on Amazon).
His work reimagines sacred law through the eyes of raising a child — and trust me, it lit a bonfire under my old assumptions and made me want to build something better.
So here I am: dragging my old instincts into the light —
the baby-talking, the gold-star-chasing, the "put on a shirt or face exile" meltdowns —
Because I finally realized:
You can’t raise a free human while you’re still living inside a cage.
This blog is where I practice busting the locks off.
One confession at a time. (My own.)
One tiny holy rebellion at a time.
One spilled juice and forehead-to-fridge sigh at a time.
Bring your popcorn.
Bring your softness.
Bring your own tangled memories of "good kid" medals and "be quiet" rules.
We’re not here to be perfect.
We’re here to get real.
And maybe — just maybe — leave the world a little freer than we found it.
93, little storm-makers.
There Is No Nap Where I Am
This blog opens with a quote from The Book of the Small and unpacks the unsung sacred labor of modern fatherhood. It reflects on how dads collapse not from weakness, but devotion, and how their presence often hides inside the mess. Loui shares her personal story, honoring her partner’s role in newborn care, and expands it to name the silent strength of dads everywhere. The piece challenges old cultural scripts and invites readers to see fatherhood as holy ground.
Do What Thou Must: How We’re Raising a Crow-Hearted Kid with Consent and Confidence
This blog is a full-frontal, hilarious self-dragging on what it really means to parent with consent, confidence, and chaos. It's about unlearning the perform-for-gold-stars parenting most of us were handed, and building a house where freedom and respect matter more than "looking good." Through personal stories (including yelling about shirts in 90° heat), Loui shows how messy, beautiful, and sacred it is to raise a child who trusts themselves first. It’s not neat. It’s not easy. But it’s real.
When Strangers Baby-Talk Your Kid (And You Wanna Disappear Into a pack of Oreos)
Learn why baby-talk feels wrong to your child and how to protect their self-respect without shame. Sacred parenting through the House of Crow and White.