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A place to arm yourself with tips, hints, downloadable research, flyers and guidelines.  Please feel free to download, print, photocopy and distribute as you see fit.

Attachment Parenting

•  Creating a peaceful society - The Origins of Love and Violence
•  Dispelling myths -  Evidence-Based Parenting: dispelling myths about attachment parenting
•  Blueprint for baby and child wellness - ALTC's 15 Essential Truths

Circumcision

•  Circumcision and HIV/AIDS - Answers to Your Questions about Circumcision and HIV/AIDS (from NOCIRC)
•  Statement by doctors - The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection: A Statement by Doctors Opposing Circumcision
•  Listen to an interview with Dr John W. Travis - What Circumcision Does to Boys (13 min)
•  The Foreskin Survival Papers - ‘Only Clean What Is Seen’—Reversing The Epidemic of Forcible Foreskin Retractions


Computers in Education

•  Are they good for developing brains? - Interview with Jane Healy, author of Failure to Connect

Controlled Crying

•  Responding to baby's cues - The Australian Association for Infant Mental Health's position paper on responding babies' cues
•  AAIMH's position on controlled crying - The Australian Association for Infant Mental Health's position paper on controlled crying
•  Article about controlled crying - The Con of Controlled Crying

Fluoride

•  12 Reasons to reject fluoridation - The One Page Fluoride Fact Sheet

Living consciously and sanely

•  Turn stress into heart-based strengths - The Heartmath Institute's free De-Stress Kit for the Changing Times

Living with food

•  Make your own window box veggie garden - How to Sheet

Nappies

•  How to fold a cloth nappy - Nappy Folds – easy to follow illustrations
•  How to dispose of your disposables - Eco-friendly disposing

Public Policy

•  Transforming childhood in public policy - The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto - a policy document (downloadble pdf version)
•  The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto - (html version that you can ENDORSE)

Spanking

•  The effects of spanking - Project No Spank's 'Plain Talk About Spanking'

Maternity Reform

• For a long time Australian maternity consumer groups have been working to reshape maternity services around the needs of women and families. Maternity Coalition's vision has   been for every woman to have the option of receiving her primary maternity care in the community by a known midwife with access to medical care according to her need. Let your voice be heard, because birth matters. Click here to read the Maternity Coalition's latest press release.





Children's Wellbeing Manifesto
PREAMBLE. All societies are profoundly shaped, for better or worse, by how we rear children. This has been the overwhelming conclusion of recent groundbreaking research across a range of disciplines. A new consensus is emerging on how we should care for o more...




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