2010

Last week I left my quiet hometown of Mullumbimby, in Northern NSW, and travelled to the big smoke of Sydney to offer four days of Aware Parenting consultations…

Negotiating me time can be a tricky task that we face as parents. There are both blocks within us, and also in our immediate circles and wider society that…

Twenty-Two Alternatives to Punishment Many parents recognize the harmful effects of physical and verbal punishment. They know that yelling, slapping, hitting,…

Ten Reasons to Respond to a Crying Child 1. A baby's first attempts to communicate cannot be in words, but can only be nonverbal. She cannot put happy feelings…

A few months before our son was born, my husband and I made the decision to get rid of our TV. Neither one of us considered ourselves addicted to TV the way…

The other day I was commenting to a friend how pleased I was that my recent series of acupuncture treatments had successfully dealt with an issue I was having.…

A Maternity services review was conducted last year and it was decided that in order to improve the options and standard of care available for women for…

(I’ll give you a clue – we also need to embrace them in ourselves!) When I came across…

Long gone is the era, of my life, when successful maternity consists of balancing a baby on my hip while counting out coins at a market stall. Today, I can no…

Recently I was invited to submit the Nappy Free! dvd to a GreenLifestyle Film Festival taking place in Hollywood... Being that it is not often that the…