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| It seems there is massive resistance to facing certain simple truths about prevention of real disease. Most readers are likely aware that the United States has very high rates of childhood obesity and diabetes—both exceedingly preventable. ...more |
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| Local food creates jobs and helps build resilient communities. Here are even more reasons why buying local food is the healthier, more sustainable option.
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| We all want our children to grow up strong, healthy and happy. What then, when we have a child with special needs? ...more |
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| One rarely thinks of motherhood as political. But as Kali Wendorf, editor of Kindred sees it, mothers, and fathers, need to find their voices in the political domain. "Our world is becoming increasingly sterile and hostile. We are moving away from the ...more |
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| Drink up! A cup of tea is the savvy mum’s answer to chilling out your nerves while buffing up your health. Studies showing tea’s health benefits continue to pile up. ...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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| When asked what I would like to be when I grew up, I can’t say I actually aspired to being a divorcée, however glamorous it sounded, or, for that matter, a wicked stepmother. ...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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| Loving relationships are vitally important and, unfortunately, rare. The truth is, couples today have an enormous task to undertake in order to maintain loving relationships. ...more |
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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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| 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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| 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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| For nearly two years, we have been hearing reports of chickens, migratory birds and humans dying from an aggressive form of influenza, called avian, or bird, flu. But what really is bird flu? ...more |
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| In 2001, actress Ricki Lake gave birth to her second child in her home—with the assistance of a midwife. She decided to birth at home after she experienced unwanted medical interventions while delivering her first child. ...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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| The average Australian child watches about four hours of television a day! Videos, computer and Playstation games add to the amount of time children spend staring at a screen. How does all this viewing affect their developing minds?
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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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| When we think about our children today, it is difficult to feel optimistic about their future. The crises all around us seem to increase day by day - from unemployment and community breakdown to global warming and terrorism - problems that seem insurmount ...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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| As soon as children are old enough to begin to interact with the wider world, the need to form a tribal bond becomes almost a developmental imperative. Because even though young children have little bodies – they don’t have little minds! ...more |
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| The current statistics around birth experience in Australia reflect a culture of inappropriate medical management of the natural process of most births. Data released by the Federal Health Minister, the Hon Nicola Roxon states that public hospitals produc ...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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| Most parents do not realise how a circumcision is performed. The baby’s arms and legs are immobilised and the genital area is scrubbed to prepare for the operation. Then the foreskin is removed, usually without an anaesthetic. ...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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| 'If our earth is to survive, we need to take responsibility for what we do. Taking control of our education is the first step.'
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| After 3 long years of trying, a miscarriage, Chinese herbs fertility stones and an eventual successful IVF cycle I was to finally be one of the ‘smug mothers.’ ...more |
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| 'It takes a village to raise a child' In the light of some of the events of the past decade, this well-known statement has a poignant, somewhat hollow ring to it. ...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? Is the teacher who gives out lots of homework helping students to learn or actually undermining them? With his new book, 'The Homework Myth', expert Alfie Kohn says homework is outdated.
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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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| How a nightmare Easter holiday turns into the best gift for the whole family. ...more |
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| Rainbow Food is a fresh approach to eating for the whole family. Rainbow Food is designed to restore our original innocent relationship with food. It is practical, easy to use, and is beneficial to the emotional body as well as the physical body. ...more |
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| 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 ...more |
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| Every mother intuitively knows the supreme importance of the relationship between her and her child with every fibre of her being, for Nature has designed it to be this way. There is nothing obscure or esoteric about the bond of intuitive connectedness th ...more |
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| • Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that children with Down’s Syndrome are born to women over 35 years.
• Two-thirds of all children with Down’s Syndrome are born to mothers under 35 ...more |
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| Have feminists, in their quest for equality rather than liberation, led women out of the frying pan into the fire, with adverse repercussions for themselves, their families, and social wellbeing? If so, as plans affecting the family develop, it is importa ...more |
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| There are a plethora of additives being used every day ion the foods we eat, very few of which have ever had significant testing done on their impacts on the human body and brain. As parents it can be overwhelming, and it is easy to throw our hands up and ...more |
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| Hang out at a playground, visit a school, or show up at a child's birthday party, and there's one phrase you can count on hearing repeatedly: 'Good job!'
Here's why it may not be the best thing to say. Even tiny infants are praised for smacking their h ...more |
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| Imagine a group of pre-pubescent girls, their mothers and friends sitting in the afternoon shade weaving, or sewing, or preparing food. There are giggles and stories and cackles and songs and heartfelt sharing. The scene seems simple, timeless, so natural ...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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| 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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