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Conscious Parenting
Martial Arts: a foundation of life & learning
Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.…
Feminism and Motherhood
Are these terms mutually exclusive, or can they be complementary? Can they co-exist within the confines of parenthood?
Women, particularly young women, find…
Banjo’s Entrance into the World
By Astra
I was awake, as usual, at 5 a.m., staring at the wall, wishing that I were asleep when I thought I had wet my pants.…
Beastly Bees and Fatal Footwear: The New Perils of Parenting
‘Stop running with that in your mouth or you’ll trip over and die!’ So yelled a mother to her child in a shopping centre last week. Maybe she’d just had way…
Birthing Rituals
Pregnancy is such a wonderful, magical time when considering the hidden processes in the belly and beyond! It is also an opportunity for women to…
Traveling with Tots
Children are wired to move, so when we confine them on an airplane or strap them into their seats in the car, it can feel like a prison to those…
A Call of the Wild – Feel the Trees: A back-to-nature activity
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Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no…
A Call from The Wild: How today’s children need nature and how the future…
I received Richard Louv’s new book the day I received the news that I was to become a father for the first time. The book, Last Child in the…
Weapons of Mass Induction – Plant Power
Published in Kindred 22 as part of Weapons Of Mass Induction
While modern recreation — television and computer games in…
Masquerade – Chemicals: The Precautionary Principle
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A relatively new principle for guiding human activities, to prevent harm to the environment and to human health has been…