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Conscious Parenting
Family Food: Creating Food Cultures and Traditions in the Home
Remembering and telling how our own family food cultures nourished (or not) and nurtured (or not) our childhoods can allow us to become present to…
Flowers Essences at Home
Rescue Remedy Works!
There is a little natural remedy bottle without which I could not have brought up my…
10 Tips for Shopping with Children
1 Remember that children have limits.
If you are shopping with children, be alert to their needs: are they tired, hungry,…
The Caesarean Birth
As a midwife I have reflected on why I feel sad when I hear of, see and care for women who have elected, when there is no clinical indication, to have a…
Frightful Witches and Kissable Toads
How folktales nourish the soul
One day Baba Yaga’s two trusted toads said,
‘You are truly…
Who’s In Charge? The Unhappy Consequences of Being Child-Centered
Watch Jean Liedloff talk with Michael Mendizza, of Touch the Future, about her adventures into the South American rainforests as a young woman and what she…
Mothering Matters
We pay almost anyone to look after infants — except their mothers.
Evidence that good mothering matters, both for the…
Fly, Baby, Fly
I first took my son on an airplane when he was barely four months old. I remember having just said goodbye to my husband and feeling awfully scared:…
The Last Time I Cried
See also Big Boys Don't Cry
The last time I cried was at the sheer beauty of the love welling up inside of me, in the deep…
Goldenheart
Once
there was a little boy
with golden hair
and golden skin
and a golden heart.
Goldenheart was his name,
but his Dad
was awfully sad.
He was…