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Kindred Spirit April 2009 |
Welcome to the April edition of Kindred Spirit, the Kindred magazine newsletter.
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world
has ever been accomplished without passion.
George Hegel - German Philosopher 1770-1831
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In This Edition
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Kindred Spirit Sponsors - Nature's Child, New Matilda & the ABA.
Latest Articles - by Chynna T. Laird, Tony Heath & Sharon Colicchia.
Kindred Online - The Art of Parenting, the Kindred blog, plus Kindred on Twitter.
Kindred Review - Michele Dennis reviews 'Andrew Potato Face'.
Kindred News - Homebirth action alert, toxins found in baby shampoo & girls losing hope?
Events & Workshops - Happy Kids, Extra Lesson conference & the Good Clean & Fair Food Expo.
Shop Kindred - The Future of Food, the Kindred library & Songman by Uncle Bob Randall.
Subscribe & Win! - subscribe to Kindred magaine & win a yoga pack from Eco Yoga.
Recommended Websites - Wake Up Sydney!, Responsible Shopper & Kindred on Facebook.
Kindred magazine - the current issue.
Featured Kindred Outlet - Macro Wholefoods.
Where to Buy - Kindred magazine near you.
Become a Kindred newsletter sponsor - and reach over 6,000 people in the Kindred community.
About Us - contribute an article, share a favourite link, update your details and more.
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Our Sponsors
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The Australian Breastfeeding Association Calendar 2009
Celebrating
the beauty of breastfeeding, babies and family, this full colour
calendar takes you through from November 2008 to February 2010 - 16
months in total. With stunning images selected from thousands of
submitted photos, the ABA calendar is an easy to use calendar featuring large squares to keep track of family events and important dates. Only $15.00 plus postage...more
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| New Matilda
newmatilda.com
is an independent Australian website of news, analysis and satire.
Believing that robust media is fundamental to a healthy democracy, newmatilda.com
aims to provide non-partisan information. It has no association with
any political party or media organisation. As well as offering an
understanding of current events against a broad historical and
political backdrop, it features issues and ideas often left untouched
by the mainstream media...more
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Latest Articles
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Pearls of Wisdom – The Spirit of Grandparents
by Chynna T. Laird
My grandparents meant more to me than anything. They enriched my life with their presence, experiences and stories while providing a piece of my history only they could offer. If a grandparent’s presence is a positive and healthy one, and a child can receive, as I did, invaluable benefits from the relationship...more
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 | Eating Your Way to a Healthy Planet
by Tony Heath
The
diet eaten by the average Australian is killing the planet. The
wholesale destruction of our oceans and the clearing of rainforests and
many other precious habitats currently under threat is inextricably
linked with their exploitation for fish and meat production...more
|  | Reflections on my Pregnancy & Jasmine’s birth
by Sharon Colicchia
When I recall back to the early weeks of being pregnant, I am amazed how my belief system & fear had already unconsciously chosen a planned, elective caesarean birth for our baby. After overcoming exhaustion like I have never experienced before, I started to question what I was doing being a so called ‘patient’ for our chosen obstetrician, so after many hours of research on the internet, a month later I was a changed woman...more
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Kindred Online
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Ask Michele your parenting questions
Question: Hi Michele, I am not sure exactly why I am writing to you other than to say that I am feeling confused and overwhelmed about my role as a parent, my effectiveness, and a sense of not being in control of it. I have three children from three separate relationships- a sixteen year old boy, who has no relationship with his father but a relationship with his ex stepfather, an eight year old boy still in contact with his father and a one year old daughter from my current relationship....more
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Hi Kali (& friends),
Thought you would love this!I am very proud of our 'breastfeeding mumma' cover this month, so couldn't wait to get to my framer today. I must really thank you for sending the extra covers, thank you for supporting breastfeeding and thank you for being so brave with your publication. I have had one framed for Danielle also, I will drop it into her tonight, signed of course...more
|  | Follow Kindred & The Art of Parenting on Twitter
People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that simple. Twitter asks one question, 'What are you doing?'. Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.
Now you can follow Kindred magazine & also The Art of Parenting on Twitter.
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Kindred Review
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 | Andrew Potato Face
Kindred Book Review
'Eat your Vegetables!' Everyone can relate to that comment, either hearing it or saying it to your own children. We are constantly being told how important it is for people to eat a healthy diet with lots of fresh vegetables. Things sometimes just don’t go the way we want them to and parents end up in a battle with their children at the dinner table...more
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Kindred News
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| Toxins found in children's shampoos
A
report by a US health advocacy group has named Johnson's Baby Shampoo
as one of 32 baby products found to contain small amounts of
carcinogenic and allergy-producing chemicals.
The study, conducted by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, laboratory tested 48 children's products that traded on claims of being pure, natural or gentle...more
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Help save private midwifery and homebirth choices
In
February this year, the Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, released
a report recommending changes to our current maternity services.The
report does not support federally funded homebirth. While midwives
working together with doctors will have access to professional
indemnity insurance, Medicare and PBS, midwives in private practice are
precluded from attaining any of these. In fact, if we do not act now,
homebirth will be illegal by 2010...more
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 | Girls abandon hope in early teens
A strange thing can happen to girls as they move from year 7 to year 10 - a certain loss of hope. They start high school more confident than boys about their ability to achieve their goals. But as they move through adolescence they rapidly lose self-belief. By age 15 boys are far more 'hopeful' than girls...more
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Events & Workshops
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Happy Kids
2nd May, 2009
Adelaide, South Australia
Happy Kids: the fresh new course from the Positive Parenting Network written for Australian parents who want their kids to be happy, both in the short and long term.
How to discipline to build self-esteem, how to communicate to create cooperation, how to develop a balanced parenting style, how to meet both your own and your kids' needs for well-being, incorporating research into the brain and positive psychology...more
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 | The Extra Lesson™ Conference 2009
13th – 17th July 2009
Sydney, Australia
A Steiner-based conference for Extra Lesson™ practitioners, teachers, doctors, therapists, parents & others interested in child-development.
International Keynote Speakers include: Dr David Ritchie MD, Ingun Schneider, Physiotherapist & Extra Lesson Trainer/Practitioner, Robyn Ritchie, Occupational Therapist & Extra Lesson Practitioner...more
|  | Good Clean & Fair Food Expo
8th April, 2009
Sydney, Australia
Enjoy food tasting & learn to recognise & demand GOOD, CLEAN & FAIR food! Free! An opportunity to experience first hand information on the concepts of Slow Food and Fair Trade in Leichhardt.
Free entry! All welcome! Find out how to get involved and do your bit to 'slow down, use your senses, save the planet'...more
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Subscribe & Win
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Eco Yoga focuses on environmentally friendly ways to promote a healthy lifestyle. We stock a range of eco-friendly yoga and pilates equipment as well as yoga and pilates dvds and books.
Subscribe to Kindred magazine for two years or more and automatically go into the draw to win one of three prize packs from Eco Yoga. Each pack contains one green eco-friendly yoga mat and one natural coloured organic cotton yoga strap to help perform yoga stretches...subscribe or resubscribe today.
|  | Maggie Dent Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the March newsletter competition:
Michelle Black, SA
Denise Bullen, WA
Renea Mahboop, QLD
You have each won a copy of Maggie Dent's new book, Real Kids in an Unreal World just for subscribing to Kindred magazine.
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Recommended Websites
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Wake Up Sydney!
Wake Up Sydney! is part of the largest movement the world has ever seen. Millions of people, just like you, are waking up to a bright new way of thinking, a brilliant new way of being.
To help spark this process, we have created beautifully designed 'Kindness Cards'. Visit Wake Up Sydney today and sign up to receive your free Kindness Cards...more
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| Responsible Shopper
Your guide to promoting a responsible economy. Green America's Responsible Shopper
provides you with the real story about abuses by well-known companies,
gives you actions to promote corporate responsibility, and helps you
green your life and world. Search hundreds of company profiles by name
or by industry and quickly compare the corporate responsibility records
of companies within industries...more
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Now over 600 fans!
Are you one of them? Become a fan of Kindred of Facebook and meet other like-minded people in the Kindred community...more
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Kindred Magazine
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Kindred magazine. Vol 29.
What's inside:
What’s Happening to Our Girls? - by Maggie Hamilton
Fever: your child’s best friend - by Michael Sichel, ND, DO, PhD
The Brain Gut Connection - by Amba Hagen
Giving Education a Boost - by Michele Dennis
Dark Clouds Gather over Climate Science - by Jon Woodlands
And much ...more
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Featured Kindred Outlet
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Macro Wholefoods
Kindred magazine is now available in all Macro stores, including the Bondi Junction store. Macro Wholefoods Market is dedicated to providing people with, and enlightening people to, a healthier, cleaner way of eating and living...more
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Just Say No
While an attitude of openness to life is health-promoting, saying yes to life also means saying no a good deal of the time. People who are afraid of disapproval from others say yes regardless of their true feelings. The question can range from the trivial |
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Interview with Kali Wendorf
the nuclear family, as I define it, is the basic father, mother and 2.5 kids model. It’s based on an insular mindset, whereby community and larger extended family have very little to do with the day to day existence of a family’s members. The nuclear fami |
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Rights and Responsibilities: Where did they Go?
Feminism is a dirty word, especially if you are a pro-establishment columnist. Recently the mass media have spurned the safety of homebirth. Doctors were outraged at the death of four babies, without revealing any case facts. Many have regarded women as i |
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Pushing for Birth Reform
Birth groups all over the country arecampaigning for reform of Australia’s birth care services. With the crisis in current care systems, the National Maternity Action Plan helps us all sing the same song towards change. We are on the threshold of a rare o |
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