Conscious Parenting

Mothers who do not breastfeed risk postnatal depression Read the release here and the full research document here. Mothers who bottle feed their infants…

(The following is an extract from the book, Real Kids in an Unreal World: Building Resilience and Self Esteem in Today’s Chaotic World by Maggie Dent.)…

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…

Rescue Remedy Works! There is a little natural remedy bottle without which I could not have brought up my…

1 Remember that children have limits. If you are shopping with children, be alert to their needs: are they tired, hungry,…

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…

How folktales nourish the soul One day Baba Yaga’s two trusted toads said, ‘You are truly…

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…

We pay almost anyone to look after infants — except their mothers. Evidence that good mothering matters, both for the…

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:…