Healthier you, greener planet
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Trying to find exciting and new activities for young children is a challenge for us stay-at-home-moms. Well, anyway, it is for this SAHM. Although I would just as soon stay in the house and write half the day, I also want to make sure Benjamin gets out and experiences life. And I also want to [...]
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How to deal with tantrums? I was hoping beyond hope that I would never have to address this question personally. When my son reached the age of two, then two and a half, and still was not throwing temper tantrums on a regular basis, I thought maybe we would be able to walk right on [...]
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To breastfeed or not to breastfeed? Beth Gonzalez asked herself this question when she got pregnant with her first child, and after much research and soul-searching she decided that yes, she would. Now, she asserts, she knows that her decision saved her baby’s life. Her story is in the latest issue of New Beginnings, a [...]
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Holiday stress: The state of being overwhelmed by the sudden onslaught of activities and errands during the period beginning November 1 and ending January 1. In our material-driven society today, stress during the holidays has become so commonplace that fewer and fewer people truly enjoy the days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Besides your [...]
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When I first decided to go down the child-led weaning path, the reason was simple: it was the most natural thing to do. Yes, I knew that my son Benjamin might choose to continue nursing beyond the age of two. Yes, I knew that most of the people I knew would consider my choice strange [...]
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Breastfeeding my son has been an interesting journey. I attended La Leche League meetings while pregnant, and by the time Benjamin was born felt absolutely confident that nursing my son would be a beautiful experience. Until his third day of life, when my nipples felt like they’d been scraped with sandpaper for twenty-four solid hours. [...]
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Are you into “natural parenting“? Do you parent according to the principles of “attachment parenting”? Regardless of your label of choice, deciding to embark on a non-mainstream parenting lifestyle means making yourself vulnerable to all of its one hundred and one challenges. When you choose to use cloth diapers, co-workers will call you “strange.” When [...]
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A lot of controversy surrounds “the epidural.” Natural health gurus are quick to warn pregnant women of all the potential dangers and side effects of the procedure, while medical science assures them that the actual risk associated with it is quite low. When I got pregnant with Benjamin, it was a given that he would [...]
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Elimination Communication, or infant potty training, is gaining popularity with natural moms and dads around the globe. After all, to learn to recognize your baby’s signals that she needs to pee or poo, and then assisting her to “go” in a receptacle, is more hygenic and natural than making her pee and poo against her [...]
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Trying to find a variety of healthy snacks in this world of junk and convenience foods can sometimes be a challenge. Back in the days when I taught Kindergarten, we had snack time in the afternoon. Every morning, I would watch the “snack helpers” of the day in the other classrooms bring in everything from [...]
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