Know your Drugs
This was published in Kindred, Issue 27, as part of the ‘Raising Drug-Free Kids’ special feature. See also From Harry Potter to Pot by the same author.…
From Harry Potter to Pot
Published as part of ‘Raising Drug-Free Kids’ Sept ’08, Issue 27.
Children are at home in…
Blessing Your Way
Inspired by the Navajo tradition of celebrating a woman’s transition into motherhood, a blessingway is a holistic alternative to a baby shower. Here Jodi Wilson…
Women as a Battlefield
No article of clothing so controversially evokes hostility and revulsion in Western societies as the headscarf, or hijab, worn by many Muslim women.…
What’s in a Cup of Tea for Me?
The mighty cup of tea is something that has been enjoyed across cultures for many years. In China tea has been used as a medicine to…
Intelligent Growth
It has always amazed me how our culture seems to have immense difficulty in accepting one very simple fact—that the Earth is a finite sphere…
How to Make Organic Food Affordable
As energy and food prices continue to rise, people are asking how to affordably put healthy food on their table. With a little bit of outside-the-box…
Yes We Can
We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion-year-old carbon.
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
- Joni Mitchell
The rejoicing is…
After Divorce: Staying Connected When You Are Apart (Part 2)
"The more children are connected to both parents and to their larger families, the more they can leave home in a healthy way. The more they have…
Tantrums, Fussing and Whining
From The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007) by Elizabeth Pantley.
If you ask parents to list the most frustrating discipline problems during early…