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Conscious Parenting
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...…
Feminism Childcare and Family Mental Health: Have women been misled by…
Childcare seems to be always on the political agenda. But are the real needs of babies, very young children and their mothers being…
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…
Bathtime is Quality Time
Before we become fathers we are free to live like children ourselves. We work towards our own ends, we engage in relationships to satiate our own needs and…
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…
Practical Tools for ‘Misbehaviour’ and Setting Limits: a…
It is our view that infants are genetically biased towards interaction with other people from the beginning. A child is pre-adapted to a…