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Kindred Spirit May 2008 |
Welcome to the May edition of Kindred Spirit.
Just as a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
Marianne Williamson
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Latest Articles - Sensory Deprivation and Minimising Menopause.
Seasonal Eating - In Season recipe for May with Michele Dennis.
Action Alert - Homebirth on Medicare, help fund the work of James W. Prescott and bid to support The Fatherhood Project.
Kindred News - Vaccination & autism and BPA in baby bottles.
Events & Workshops - The Dreaming Festival 2008, Future Families Autumn Festival and Robin Grille at Kinma School for Heart to Heart Parenting.
Kali's Radio Show - Kindred magazine editor, Kali Wendorf's new radio show.
Shop Kindred - The Future of Food, James W. Prescott's The Origins of Love and Violence.
Subscribe & Win! - a prize pack from Nature Baby Care.
Kindred Spirit Sponsors - Buy Healthy & The Unschooling Unmanual.
Become a Kindred newsletter sponsor - and reach over 4,000 people in the Kindred community.
Kindred magazine - the current issue.
Featured Kindred Outlet - Cedars Organics.
Where to Buy - Kindred magazine near you.
Recommended Websites - Gentle Birth, Don't Trade Lives and Kindred on Facebook.
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Latest Articles
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Sensory Deprivation and the Developing Brain
Which is richer in terms of sensory experience: Being held close to mother’s breast or sucking artificial formula from a plastic bottle? Being strapped in a plastic stroller or carried on dad’s shoulders? Digging a hole to China in the back yard or watching the Disney Channel?... Day by day, sensation by sensation the full spectrum experiences offered by a natural three-dimensional world have been replaced by sensory deprived counterfeits...more
*Please see the ACTION ALERT below to find out how you can support the work of the Touch The Future centre and receive a complimentary DVD on the work of Michael Mendizza & James W Prescott PhD.
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My Magic Salad
My migraines are gone. There’s not a whisper of a hot flash. I’ve stopped attacking my loved ones. And I sleep through the night. How did I do it? How did I make my menopause symptoms go away?
It’s at this point I feel as though I should (being an American) want to make money from my exciting new discovery. But if I did actually make money I’m afraid my husband Cliff would keel over in a dead faint...more |
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Seasonal Eating
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In Season in May - Apple Crumb Cake
Autumn means cooler weather, apples and baking… Bite into an apple from your local grower and you can immediately tell the difference between it and the average supermarket apple. A fresh local apple is crunchy, clean and crisp tasting. You can just about taste the cool autumn air in a local apple. A supermarket apple can travel thousands of kilometres and sit for up to ten months before you buy it...more
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Action Alert
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You can help get Homebirth on Medicare
Homebirth with an independent midwife is currently the only way to have a baby in Australia with professional maternity care that is totally unfunded by the Australian Government. With your help, we hope to bring Australia into line with the UK, New Zealand, the Netherlands and numerous other countries that fund homebirth. Homebirth Access Sydney has recently met with advisers of both the Federal Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon and the Minister for the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek about implementing the ALP’s 2007 National Platform with respect to homebirth...more
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Donate to Touch the Future's DVD Legacy Project
More has been discovered about child and human development in the past fifty years than in all of human history. The challenge is not to discover new information. It is to reach out and share this vast body of insight with today’s parents, educators, caregivers and coaches, and to do this in ways that support, inform and inspire. Help share this critical research for generations to come by making a tax deductible donation of any amount. Donations of $US50 or more will receive the first copies of the completed DVD Legacy Project, Sensory Deprivation and the Developing Brain, Research and Prevention...more
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The Fatherhood Project Art Auction
The Fatherhood Project have been donated a stunning, 4.2 metre long painting by indigenous urban artist Gordon Syron. One of Gordon’s most famous paintings is estimated to be worth close to $800k (judgment by our peers). However, we are offering our painting ‘Brolgas before the Monsoon’ by online auction with bidding starting at $2,000. Please contact Colin George at The Fatherhood Project or simply place an email bid.
The NSW Art Gallery have requested to buy all of Gordon’s paintings in order to set up a dedicated gallery in Redfern in honour of his work. He has a socio-political bent with his paintings imbued with subtle social commentary. This means that ‘Brolgas’ will be sought after as one of the only paintings not on exhibition.
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Kindred News
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Feds admit vaccine 'aggravated' autism
The federal government continues to deny a link between vaccines and autism, but the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled in favour of a child alleged to have regressed into autism as a result of vaccinations. Several of the vaccinations included the controversial mercury-based preservative thimerosal, points out the National Autism Association, which sees the ruling as confirmation of the claims of many parents...more
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Bisphenol A in baby bottles
A chemical in some plastic food and drink packaging including baby bottles may be tied to early puberty and prostate and breast cancer, the US government said today. Based on draft findings by the National Toxicology Program, part of the US National Institutes of Health, senior congressional Democrats asked the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its view that the chemical bisphenol A is safe in products for use by infants and children...more
For more information on this topic, see the article Practical Values - Hard to Break, published in Kindred magazine,volume 24...more |
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Events & Workshops
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Robin Grille at Kinma School
Do
you ever feel baffled by your baby or child, and stuck wondering how to
respond? How can you learn to better understand your child from the
inside? The key to your own wisdom and intuition as a parent lies in
your body-memory of having been a child yourself.
Kinma School proudly presents, A National Family Week Event:
A public talk by internationally acclaimed author, Robin Grille ‘Parents were children once’ in celebration of his latest book, Heart to Heart Parenting on Wednesday 14 May 2008...more
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Autumn Festival presented by Future Families Inc.
Saturday 10 May 2008
An Autumn Puppet Show by Stargold Puppets: ‘The Apple Cake’. A favourite children’s story brought to life with glove puppetry and live music. Plus dancing, songs, kids craft and a healthy autumn lunch time feast!...more
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The Dreaming Festival 2008
The Dreaming Festival is a vibrant, exciting and a valuable destination where local, national and international audiences look forward to their annual ceremony time along with the most comprehensive showcase of Indigenous arts from across the country and around the world. This three day and four night festival will have performing arts venues, bars, Ceremony grounds, traditional healing, galleries, rituals, campfire story circles and a mass of stalls, workshop avenue and food outlets....more
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Kali's Radio Show
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Healthy Alternatives for Kids on 94.1FM
On the second Monday of every month at 4pm EST (this month's show is on May 12), Kindred magazine editor, Kali Wendorf produces a new radio segment Healthy Alternatives for Kids
on Wonderful
World Media, a Melbourne-based radio station. Listen live
online to some of Kindred's favourite writers and thinkers, download
past segments, or, if you're in Melbourne, listen live on the radio on
3WBC, 94.1FM...more |
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Shop Kindred
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The Origins of Love & Violence
Bonding and brain development CD-Rom
James W Prescott, Ph.D. presents this
rare academic compilation which introduces and documents over 30 years of
brain/behaviour research on the impact of affectionate bonding, or its
absence, on the developing brain. Crucial material for childbirth
educators & early childhood and parent educators; medical &
health professionals; midwives, birth attendants & doulas; teachers...more |
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Future of Food DVD
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of the world in a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade...more |
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Subscribe and Win
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Nature Babycare
Nature Babycare offers a range eco friendly disposable nappies, wipes and nappy bags. Nature Babycare have combined the latest technology to deliver a nappy that avoids that iniquitous plastic by using a soft and breathable cover made from 100% GM free maize. Nature Babycare nappies halve the amount of super absorbents used so fewer chemicals are used. Nature Babycare napppies deliver superior performance, are easy to use, considerate to the environment and are disposable...more
We have three prize packs from Nature Babycare to giveaway. To win, call the Kindred offices on 02 6684 4353 and subscribe to Kindred magazine for 2 years or more.
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Competition Winners
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Down To Earth Baby
Congratulations to the following winners of our April magazine subscription competition:
Rebecca McFarlane, SA
Sarah-Jane McPhail, NSW
Emma Proudley, QLD
Down To Earth Baby
have a fabulous range of unique natural and organic products, packs
& gifts for pregnancy, labour, postnatal recovery, breastfeeding
and of course, beautiful new baby...more
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The Unschooling Unmanual
The Unschooling Unmanual, the newest book from The Natural Child
Project,
features eleven essays by eight writers: Nanda Van Gestel, Jan Hunt,
Daniel Quinn, John Holt, Rue Kream, Kim Houssenloge, Earl Stevens, and
Mary Van Doren. Through engaging personal stories and essays, the writers offer inspiration and encouragement for seasoned and prospective unschoolers alike.
To read the first chapter of the book and to order, visit The Natural Child Project website. |
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Kindred Magazine
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The March - May issue of Kindred is out now
Issue 25 - what's inside:
When Someone You Love Dies - a special Kindred feature
Growing a Community
The Fluoride Debate: Are We Poisoning Our Children?
The Northern Territory Intervention
The Precious Journey of the Mother Who Adopts Older Children
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New Kindred Outlet
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Cedars Organics
Cedars
Organics has always sought to provide a superior selection of organic
produce and groceries for the Goulburn region. As well as a great range
of organic baby care items, we stock an exciting range of fruit &
vegetables, dairy, meat, body care and household cleaning products and
now...Kindred magazine. We strongly believe
in the benefits of an organic lifestyle and our greatest wish is that
our customers might also grasp this philosophy... Visit our store at 121 Auburn Street, Goulburn NSW phone 02 4823 5789. |
If you would like to have Kindred available in your store, email us for more information or phone our offices on 02 6684 4353.
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| Where To Buy |
Kindred near you
Kindred magazine is available by subscription,
from Borders bookstores, Organic Wholefoods stores in Victoria, quality
newsagents, baby stores, health food stores and now in the US from selected Barnes
& Noble stores.
To find a retailer near you, visit the Where To Buy page on our website.
if you would like to stock Kindred magazine in your store, email us
or phone our offices on 02 6684 4353. You'll also receive a free
listing on our website and a space in a future edition of this
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Recommended Websites
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Gentle Birth
If we lived in a world where…Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting were considered NORMAL, we could... birth without fear, birth without the need for machines and birth without instruction or intervention. As birth is a family event NOT a medical procedure…more
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Don't Trade Lives
Are Australians eating chocolate produced using forced child labour? Yes
they are. In 2007, Australia's chocolate manufacturers spent just over
$15 million to import cocoa from Ivory Coast and Ghana. In these two
countries, child labour and trafficked children are significant in the
production of cocoa...more |
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The Chemical Maze 4th edition
Now in its 4th edition, Bill Statham's shopping companion, The Chemical Maze has been incredibly influential in making people aware of the various poisons and chemicals in every day products and how to avoid them. 'Our mission is to assist people from
Price: $ 20.00
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Wonder Tales of Earth and Sea CD
WARNING: This CD will ignite your child's imagination and cause them to listen to it over and over instead of watching TV!
Winner of the National Library of Australia's Special Award for children 4-9 years
Entertain the kids in the car, before bed,
Price: $ 30.00
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A Call from The Wild: How today’s children need nature and how the future depends on it
I received Richard Louv’s new book the day I received the news that I was to become a father for the first time. The book, 'Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder', is a timely reminder of the challenges that lie ahead |
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How to talk with your teenage boy about p**n
Gone are the days of dog-eared Playboys under the mattress. The internet exposes young people to pornography of unprecedented extremes. Marnia Robinson and Gary Wilson speak directly to young teens in an article that can support you in your discussion wit |
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Touch Wood
Given the dangers and environmental costs associated with plastics, more and more people are turning back to wooden toys. It is, however, still important to check on the origins and manufacturing ethics of all toys, wooden and otherwise. |
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Weapons of Mass Induction - Plant Power
While modern recreation — television and computer games in particular — stimulates the stress-producing sympathetic nervous system, greenery activates the opposite parasympathetic nervous system, which calms and relaxes us. Greenery can wean us off the ne |
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Kindred's Ultimate Nappy Guide - The Disposable Story
Until 1946, cloth nappies were the only nappies that existed in Western society. They were usually cotton or muslin. There were no nappy covers except for knitted wool pants. With few covers and basic washing facilities, motivation was very high to train |
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