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By Joseph Chilton Pearce
Just the author’s name is enough to sell this book! I remember being handed an old copy of Magical Child when I was pregnant. It had very small print, had been passed around many women before me and was quite tatty. But it See full info...
Discussion is the one certain thing this book will raise if read by parents and it is brilliant that this subject matter is up for discussion in book form at last!
Finally teenage boys have a contemporary book about sex and intimacy written especially See full info...
By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Such an easy to read, easy to implement book! And it is sure to bring about more cooperation, support and ease in your household. You never knew it could be so easy. The advice is friendly, supportive, respectful to kids See full info...
By Suzanne Arms
Suzanne Arms and Immaculate Deception is a refreshing and truthful account of what is really happening behind medical system in birth, and she manages to do it with great clarity and compassion. Her photographs are compelling, provoking See full info...
By John Holt
Contemporary education, with its enormous budgets, teachers' strikes, and institutional violence, does not work. In fact, it might be that compulsory schooling is among the most authoritarian and destructive inventions of mankind. However, See full info...
By Joseph Chilton Pearce
A classic must-read for every parent, care-giver and policy maker. Chilton Pearce explores humanity’s potential through the neurodevelopmental map of a child’s mind. We were designed for transformation, intelligence and See full info...
By Steve Biddulph
Heralded as one of the most important books of its time, Manhood has been quoted in Australian parliament, as well as in a presentation to MPs in the British House of Commons. The book begins with the confronting words 'Most men don't See full info...
By Ian Macdonald
Ian Macdonald’s sensitive yet forthcoming approach (based on direct experiences in his own life and from those of many other men) helps men who are separated to move beyond just surviving a difficult and challenging experience and See full info...
By Joan Salter
Raising kids is important work. Yet there is little, if any, support for mothers who for the most part hold down this important position. For example, parents with young children are pressured into jobs and early childcare--yet many want See full info...
Winner of the 2006 Australian Peace Prize Dr Helen Caldicott’s latest book, ‘Nuclear Power is not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything else’ is a powerful damming of the nuclear power power industry and its mates in high political office. Dr See full info...
By Rex McCann
The loss or absence of an involved and present father impacts many boys, and can create a sense of loss that they take into adulthood. The absence can lead to real difficulties in their adult relationships, their role as a parent, their See full info...
By Jill Burrett
This is a guide on how to successfully create two households out of what is still one family. If you are struggling and niggling with your ex-partner, and struggling parenting alone or with a new partner living as a step-mum or dad, this See full info...
By Marnia Robinson
Why is it that so many relationships fail. One minute we are in love and it is working out beautifully, the next minute our differences send us miles apart. Nature designed it that way, so that we would, man and woman, come together, See full info...
By Wendy Lydall
This book provides you with a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the facts, myths, problems and solutions that come with raising a vaccine free child. It helps you protect your children both from the wiles of the vaccine industry and See full info...
By Aric Sigman
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about how bad screen-media was for you and your children, check again. Dr. Aric Sigman takes the gloves off in his insightful and shockingly perceptive assessment of our See full info...
By Mary Pipher, PH.D
The quintessential read for all those who parent, work alongside or know an adolescent or soon to be adolescent girl.
ISBN 0345418786
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by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
In the same great tradition as ‘How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk’, this book is filled with practical tips, guidelines and real-life examples to equip parents with what it takes to eliminate or See full info...
By Kate Strohm
Kate Strohm takes her personal story of her life with her sister who had cerebral palsy as the premise for this moving work. It is a revelation to people like myself who do not have this personal experience and more than that, it is an See full info...
By Hugh & Gayle Prather
The Prathers offer an irresistible invitation into the heart and innate spiritual nature of your child. As Hugh and Gayle Prather suggest, "we should consider ourselves more like a Sherpa guide than a trainer or commanding See full info...
By Aletha Solter
Crying continues throughout children’s and adult lives but the toddler years can be the most frustrating because your child’s communication with you is more direct than ever and when talking and crying are used on a daily basis to See full info...
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Teens, Screens and Technology Creep
In a well-known education journal, a computer hardware ad depicts an empty classroom, with computers on each desk. Outside in the background is an empty schoolyard. The children are clustered off to one side, faces pressed against the classroom window pee
The Northern Territory Intervention: voices from the centre of the fringe
This important article concerning a radical Federal Government intervention in Aboriginal communities—sparked by national outrage at alleged endemic child sexual abuse—first featured in the Australian Medical Journal in December 07. New Prime Minister Kev
US Health Professionals Make Dramatic Call to Cease Fluoridation
Health professionals worldwide are waking up to the hazards posed by water flouridation, saying that flouride, a neurotoxin, is hazardous to children and to adults, with flouride being linked to many childhood and adult illnesses.
Passion for the School Kitchen Garden
A garden at ones school may in fact be of greater education value than the normal curriculum. To learn and understand permaculture techniques, the seasons, how plants grow and how it feels to eat from a garden, that vegies and fruit grow in soil not shops