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| We did everything by the book: birthed at home, breastfed over two years, co-slept and wore our babies on our bodies 24/7 — why then do some attached children seem anxious, over-sensitive, angry and even hostile sometimes?
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| Sara and her family are one of thousands of families who have discovered successful treatments for their children's autism and shared their successes with other parents and researchers at the Autism Research Institute. ...more |
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| Do our policy-makers know what is best for our families? Is their rhetoric on providing a ‘head start in life’ with early day care based on solid research, or is it more about serving their political party’s socio-economic agenda? ...more |
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| A practical and enjoyable way for a dad to spend time with his bundle of joy is bathing. At most maternity hospitals, the midwives are more than happy to give fathers a cursory instruction in the practice of bathing a newborn. ...more |
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| Obstetricians have turned birth into a surgical procedure and done damage to women’s bodies and now suggest the solution is to promote yet even more radical and aggressive surgery: caesarean section. ...more |
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| Quite often, mothers (and to a lesser extent dads) find themselves needing to re-establish a sense of their own boundaries, after years of a symbiotic merger with their babies. ...more |
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| A blessingway is a way of welcoming a new baby's presence, as well as a way of providing a ritualised connection to friends and community for the mum to be. As research shows, babies are far more aware in utero than previously understood, so why not welco ...more |
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| Western culture has built an entire system of care — obstetrics — around the belief a woman is not able to successfully birth on her own. ...more |
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| Adopting an eleven-year-old boy, Laurie Couture was determined to play catch up with years of missed bonding and attachment for her adopted son. Normally an older adoptee has more history of pain and rejection than someone younger, thus it was a great jou ...more |
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| Breastfeeding — this most natural act in the world — wasn't always surrounded by myth and fallacy. While its benefits are undeniable, the fact remains that the act of breastfeeding is under constant scrutiny politically and culturally. ...more |
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| My son is 15 and has brought me nothing but...
'Trouble?' I thought you’d say that! No, my son is 15 and has brought me nothing but joy. 'You’re kidding! How did you do that?' ...more |
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| The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, terrorised, and sexually abused.
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| Giving birth in ecstasy: This is our birth right and our body's intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis), so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.
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| Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of Her dignity and purpose in our times. Birth has become a dangerous medical disease to be treated with escalating le ...more |
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| Without embodied love, peace is not possible. Without integrative bodily pleasure, moral behaviours of peace, harmony and human equality are not possible. Depression replaces joy and drugs are sought to drown the depression, the anger and rage that escala ...more |
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| Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation of it, had I cause to use it, which I rarely did. Then Marilyn Milos entered my life through our founding meeting of the Alliance for Transforming the Liv ...more |
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| 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 ...more |
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| Be aware that how you were parented is a major factor in your choice of parenting style, one way or another. Whatever advice new parents may get from family, friends and parenting experts, we all refer back to our own childhood for our fundamental parenti ...more |
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| Post Natal Depression (PND) affects at least one in ten mothers around the world. While this painful and debilitating condition afflicts mothers — within four weeks of giving birth — it is also stressful for family relationships and detrimental to mother– ...more |
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| There are many things to consider when planning your pregnancy, labour and birth. It is important to remember that there are many options available, and you need to consider your own expectations and birth experience before deciding. For example, the foll ...more |
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| Losing a child to drugs or alcohol is a frightening prospect for mothers and fathers. The worn-out slogan ‘Just Say No’ hardly addresses the complexities behind what makes a child start to use substances in their teens.
From understanding emotional we ...more |
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| The tips range from showing parents of newborns how to foster healthy emotional development to reassuring parents of young adults that they can still help their children attain the emotional health that will help protect them from the need to use drugs. ...more |
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| In many ways our modern life style and world are deficient in both touch and movement, both critical for healthy and whole development. ...more |
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| As concerned parents and educators have become aware of the dangers of physical punishment, time-out has emerged as a popular disciplinary tool. ...more |
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| "The kids at school were amazed to hear I share a bed with my brother and sister. I never told them about the times we'd squeezed five in that bed. All my own class mates had their own beds, some of them even had their own rooms. I considered them disadva ...more |
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| Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questions the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oursel ...more |
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| Why do some children grow up to become a Gandhi and others a Hitler? What happens from birth to adulthood that determines that difference? A consistent, loving connection with at least one adult is essential to create the healthy, strong parent-child bond ...more |
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| Clearly drug abuse cannot be viewed in a vacuum as our politicians and leaders think. Of course how we are nurtured, how our world reflects who we are, will impact on how we are as young adults, including our susceptability to drugs ...more |
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| Touch, especially, is a powerful nutrient for your baby’s development – it is the first sense to develop, just days after conception, and is important for a whole lifetime. ...more |
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| There’s nothing more refreshing than a dip in the ocean, the freedom, weightlessness and buoyancy. For a woman in labour, those qualities of water provide incredible, infinite benefits.
When a woman relaxes in warm water, free from the pull of gravity a ...more |
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| Men leave their families in a multitude of ways. Even if they remain in the home, many fathers are often emotionally absent. Why is this such a common occurence and what can we do about it? ...more |
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| The Intelligence of the Heart. Last month I attended a summit hosted by the aTLC (Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children - www.atlc.org ) in California and had the opportunity to spend time with and interview Joseph Chilton Pierce. ...more |
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