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Conscious Parenting
Australian Learning Communities
Australia's own home-based learning community has created a rich tapestry of grassroots networks of folks simply getting on with the job of…
Beyond Bonding: A Mother’s Story
Quite often, mothers (and to a lesser extent dads) find themselves needing to re-establish a sense of their own boundaries, after years of a symbiotic merger…
Healing Birth, Healing The Earth
Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of Her…
Waterbirth: The Gentle Approach
There’s nothing more refreshing than a dip in the ocean, the freedom, weightlessness and buoyancy. For a woman in labour, those qualities of…
Preparing yourself for Birth
Presented by The Training and Research Centre for Natural Birth Inc.
There are many things to consider when planning your…
You and Me Against the World
As I researched and wrote Naked Motherhood and its subsequent thesis, I oscillated between believing I was articulating the experiences of a silent…
Facts and Myths about Special Needs Children
• Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that…
Give your child a head start in life through early childhood music
The first five years of a child’s life is a window of opportunity for laying foundations through stimulating experiences for their…
Confessions of a Proud Mum
My son is 15 and has brought me nothing but...
“Trouble?”
I thought you’d say that! No,…
The Magical Child, an excerpt
Introduction by Anna Jahns
Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questions the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our…