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| 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 ...more |
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| Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no chocolate for a start! We pass trees every day but how often do we really take a close look at them? Close your eyes and picture ...more |
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| A Kindred world exclusive. On the eve of an historic, billion-dollar world vaccination campaign, a leaked transcript ignites questions of vaccine safety and research corruption. ...more |
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| We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. ...more |
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| Psychiatry says that ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a 'mental illness' that strikes millions of our children, requiring that they take stimulant drugs to hold their disease at bay... This is our definition of ADHD: ...more |
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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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| Symptoms that may be helped by craniosacral treatments include feeding difficulties, colic, irritability, poor sleep, developmental difficulties, emotional distress, and ear and sinus problems... ...more |
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| Unschooling is more than an education – it’s life. In natural learning, everything is connected. Our children have gone from classical music to art, architecture, and ancient Rome, and from there to philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras and mathematics... ...more |
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| Australia's own home-based learning community has created a rich tapestry of grassroots networks of folks simply getting on with the job of facilitating learning experiences for their children. ...more |
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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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| I went home and cried all night. In the morning I rang and cancelled the appointment. That was the beginning of my new consciousness and the search for answers as how best to nurture this child and do what felt right to me. ...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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| ‘Stop running with that in your mouth or you’ll trip over and die!’ So yelled a mother to her child in a shopping centre last week. Maybe she’d just had way too many coffees that morning... ...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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| 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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| From birth onwards, babies learn by watching the household activities of their parents. We can help them discover their world by carrying them on our bodies in a baby carrier as we tidy, sweep, wash up and prepare food.
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| There is little doubt that our kids have a greater susceptibility to toxic chemicals. Everyday we expose our children to hundreds of different chemicals in an array of household products and yet remain puzzled as to why they get sick. ...more |
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| Why are chores important for children’s development, and which chores are appropriate for what age? Michele Dennis tells us more.
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| We want the best for our children, so it's easy to think the latest technology of our time will benefit them, but does it?
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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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| Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and difficult from the beginning. ...more |
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| Do bulging backpacks mean learning? With his new book, 'The Homework Myth', expert Alfie Kohn says no. Here’s why.
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| Traditionally, being 'smart' has meant having high academic test scores. While this definition may have served us well in the past, for children to succeed in today's world, we need to redefine what 'smart' really means. ...more |
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| Dealing with challenging behaviour doesn’t have to be complicated. Here are a few helpful ideas.
Sandra Azar, a Boston-based psychologist, believes there are four main rules for parents to follow if they are to do a ‘good-enough’ job of parenting and the ...more |
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| What would all our Steiner friends think?’ was the initial thought that came to mind. ‘For that matter, what do I think?’ which began a chorus of debate within my head.
There I was at 6:30 am Tuesday morning, my daughter awake, eating a packet of chips, ...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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| The first five years of a child’s life is a window of opportunity for laying foundations through stimulating experiences for their overall development.
Cynthia Ensign Baney, an early childhood music consultant and composer states that the opportunity to ...more |
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| Our modern system of grading everything our children do does not support kids to really learn, but rather to just be as good or bad as everyone else. If a high achiever receives 80% we are happy, but that means he or she has not learned 20% of the curricu ...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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| The whole goal seems to be to make marketing almost invisible, a 360 degree wall around a kid, such that where reality starts and marketing begins... becomes ever more obscure and difficult to find, so that the goal is for kids to grow up not seeing the m ...more |
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| When someone dies, in anyone's life but particularly in a child's life, it is important that as much support as possible is provided. Here Maggie Dent provides some therapy options that may assist the child in this time. ...more |
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| Whether you’re on the phone, busy on your computer, or talking to another adult, it can be frustrating when your children constantly interrupt you. What’s surprising to learn is that they do it because they always get a response from you when they do! ...more |
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| Adolescents are a mystery to many adults — especially their parents.
It is a time when three of the great changes of human life occur:
the ability to reproduce, the establishment of an identity and the formal commencement of logical, rational, reasoned ...more |
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| Children have a unique constitutional type. According to the Ayurvedic theory of doshas everything in the universe is comprised of different proportions of space, air, fire, water and earth. ...more |
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| The Kindred continuum of principle and manifesto recognises a fundamental but often overlooked aspect of children’s health and wellbeing — to protect them from exposure to toxic environments. ...more |
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| Another day is over and I watch my sons while they sleep. I’ve closed their bedroom windows, pulled the covers over their shoulders and now — before I leave their rooms — I say a quick prayer for them and wonder how I’m doing as a father. Do they get enou ...more |
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| While environmental issues were on the radar screen when I was at school from the late 70s through to 1990, the issues were not as ominous a concern as they are today. The environment was still viewed by most as a backdrop to life, not an issue that thre ...more |
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| Abandonment, separation, insecurity and isolation. These are experiences that we as a global community are facing. But most sadly it is affecting our children. Gone is their innocence so early, their trust in humanity, and their trust in adults to safegua ...more |
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| Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.
Rather than an end unto itself, it provides a strong and supportive foundation for children as they move into
other aspects of their lives, be it other sport ...more |
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| Hapkido, the Way of Harmonious Power, is a dynamic Korean martial art.
Its philosophy draws from Asian spiritual wisdom, including the Buddhist values of non-violence and respect for all life. The long-term aim of training is the cultivation of many posi ...more |
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| Today, one finds no support for spanking in the scientific literature. This opinion, shared by mental health and child development experts, and other professionals in related fields, has been evolving for many decades and its beginnings can be found centu ...more |
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| The distinction between work (as in homework) and real learning is best appreciated by distinguishing between knowledge, with its implicit conditioning, and intelligence, which expresses naturally in the state of authentic play.
Each age and stage of a c ...more |
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| If your child is near or has passed his first birthday, you can begin incorporating pre-potty training ideas into his life. They are simple things that will lay the groundwork for potty training and will make the process much easier when you're ready to b ...more |
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| It is our view that infants are genetically biased towards interaction with other people from the beginning. A child is pre-adapted to a social world, and in this sense is social from the beginning. If an infant is reared in a social environment not too d ...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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| An unpublished study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on a “measles susceptible” (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn't been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received ...more |
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| Two years ago my husband and I were invited to dinner by a family, whose daughter I roomed with in college. Her oldest sister, with her family was also invited. We happened to arrive at the same time. We helped our children out of the car and made our way ...more |
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| In order to understand the relevance of the Tribe in the 21st Century it first has to be put into a personal context. Throughout history, people have lived together in extended families or Tribes. Tribes were able to meet the ‘hierarchy of human needs’ in ...more |
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