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Children’s Wellbeing Manifesto
CHILDREN'S WELLBEING MANIFESTO
Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children
PREAMBLE
All societies are profoundly shaped - for…
After Attachment … What Then?
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…
Breastfeeding Today — Challenging Fallacy with Fact
Breastfeeding — this most natural act in the world — wasn't always surrounded by myth and fallacy. While its benefits are undeniable, the…
From Horror To Hope: The Evolution Of Childrearing
(Photo Caption: Young boys and girls working in the spinning room of the Cornell Mill in Fall River, Massachusetts. January 1912 photo by Lewis…
Should I Vaccinate My Child?
As I researched the issue, I was amazed to discover that there is a large and growing body of clinical studies, fieldwork (in developing…
Who Cares? Making Informed Choices about Childcare
As extended families shrink, communities dwindle and the need to work increases, the need for childcare grows. But at what cost?…
Understanding Children’s Feelings
You walk into your local supermarket. You look down the lolly aisle to see a tiny toddler on the floor, kicking and screaming. Is he…
Image: the Fantasy of Reality
The whole goal seems to be to make marketing almost invisible, a 360 degree wall around a kid, such that where reality starts and marketing begins...…
ADHD Awareness Season
A Call from Wildest Colts Resources: To All Caring Adults Fall, 2004Today we ask all citizens to call forward a very special awareness. Every one of…
Intact! Protecting Our Boys from Circumcision
(Photo above by Tanya Little)
Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation of it, had I cause to…