Are you looking for information on breastfeeding, baby-wearing, co-sleeping, gentle parenting/gentle discipline, homeschooling, and other “natural family” practices? You’ve come to the right place!
Breastfeeding
- 10 Ways to Really Increase Breastfeeding Rates
- New Study on ‘Is Breast Truly Best:’ A Response
- I’m Tired of Lactivists
- Is Formula Ever Better Than Breastfeeding?
- Does Breastfeeding Really Matter?
- Ecological Breastfeeding: A Natural Approach to Child Spacing
- Balancing Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
- My Ideal Breastfeeding Diet
- How Breastfeeding Paves the Way for a Real Food Lifestyle
- Extended and Tandem Breastfeeding
- My Baby Turned One: Is It Time to Wean?
- Pregnant and Nursing Moms’ Diets
Co-Sleeping/Natural Sleep Help
- Is Co-Sleeping Dangerous?
- Gentle AP Method for Teaching Your Baby to Sleep
- Normal Baby Sleep
- Why This Attachment Parent Let Her Baby Cry It Out
- How to Create a Peaceful Bedtime Routine for Little Ones
Gentle Discipline
- Gentle Discipline
- 9 Examples of Positive Discipline
- Moving Towards Positive Discipline
- Why Punishment-Based Parenting is (Often) Lazy Parenting
- Why We Don’t Want to Spank Anymore
Homeschooling/Unschooling
- Why We’re Starting a Homeschooling Coop
- Project-Based Homeschooling
- 10 Silly Things People Say to Homeschoolers
- Decorating Your Homeschooling Area
- Unschooling
- 10 Myths About Unschooling
- What Unschooling Looks Like in our Pre/K Home
- Homeschooling Different Grade Levels
- Preschool At Home: Learning By Living
- The College Delusion
- How to Use Local Kids’ Resources
- Our First “Official” Year of Unschooling: In Review
- Messy Art Day (Recipes for Snow Dough and Marshmallow Dough)
- When Should You Start Music Lessons?
- Why Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic are the LAST Things I want My Children to Learn
- The Importance of Reading to Your Children
Other
- Why People Judge Mommies on the Internet
- Free-Range Parenting in a Helicopter World
- How to Create a Family Rules Chart
- 10 Things To Say to Moms
- 8 Ways to Help Our Children Bless Others
- What to Do with All Those Toys
- Why Society Needs to Trust Parents, Not Authorities
- Why I Don’t Want My Kids Socialized in Public School
- Should You Do Well-Child Visits?
- Dad Disciplines Daughter Publicly; The Real Lesson
- 10 Lessons from a New “Mom of Many”
- Six Car Seat Errors I’d Approach a Complete Stranger About
- The Delicate Ego of the Modern Parent: Part II