Attachment parenting. Bedsharing. Breastfeeding. Circumcision. Elimination communication. Fertility. Pregnancy. Sacred birth. Natural Immunity. Homeschooling. Unschooling. We cover it all.
Kindred Magazine
For progressive families, created to support and give voice to the movement towards conscious parenting and conscious living happening all around the world.
Mothering
The magazine for natural family living.
Parent Waves
The world’s first astrology journal dedicated to people taking care of kids. The mission of Parent Waves is simple: they feel that taking care of kids and caregivers is tied for first place as the most important kind of activism. And they think—they know—that astrology can help, and they’re determined to put that information together and make it available to you.
The Compleat Mother
The magazine of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
The Continuum Concept
Forum and database for those interested in The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
Tribal Baby
“How would we raise our baby if we were in a tribe?”
bedsharing
Bedsharing Safety Tips
Article by Laura Lane (WebMD): “Bedsharing, some researchers say, is a natural part of human life and development. Studies have shown that children who bedshare grow up to be more self-reliant and confident, handle stress well and do better in school than children who sleep in their own beds, says Jim McKenna, who has been at the forefront of bedsharing research for almost 20 years.”
Mother Nurture
This site encourages a child-centred approach to parenting – a parenting style which creates prolonged healthy attachment between you and your child, and produces strong, confident, secure children.
breastfeeding
101 Reasons to Breastfeed Your Child
Written by Leslie Burby, brought to you by ProMoM, a group that promotes the awareness and acceptance of breastfeeding.
How to Breastfeed
What to Expect®’s complete guide to breastfeeding.
Mother Nurture
This site encourages a child-centred approach to parenting – a parenting style which creates prolonged healthy attachment between you and your child, and produces strong, confident, secure children.
Successful Breastfeeding
Articles from the Weston A. Price foundation on pregnancy, breastfeeding, and raising healthy children.
The Compleat Mother
The magazine of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
chem-free baby
Chemical Free Kids
How to safeguard your child’s diet and environment.
Childproofing Our Communities
Some of the Guiding Principles for Children’s Environmental Health: 1) All children, from conception onward, have the right to clean air, safe food and drinking water, and consumer and commercial products free of environmental health and safety threats; 2) All children have the right to healthy homes, healthy child care facilities, healthy schools and healthy communities; 3) All children and adults have the right to know about proven and potential hazards to their environmental health and safety; 4) It is our mutual responsibility to protect these rights and to act with precaution on decisions that could affect children’s health and development.
Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
National multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
Children’s Health and the Environment in North America
The first integrated, regional report providing indicators for a series of children’s health and environment issues.
EPA: Children’s Health Protection
The website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They say: “Children may be more vulnerable to environmental exposures than adults because: Their bodily systems are still developing; They eat more, drink more, and breathe more in proportion to their body size; Their behavior can expose them more to chemicals and organisms. Protecting children’s health from environmental risks is fundamental to EPA’s mission.”
Healthy Car
Visit HealthyCar.org to see a listing of the least- to the most-toxic carseats.
Healthy Child, Healthy World
Dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures.
HealthyeHouse
This interactive virtual house helps make it easy for you to identify environmental health hazards in the home.
WHO: Children’s Environmental Health
From the World Health Organization’s website: “Children are exposed to serious health risks from environmental hazards. Over 40% of the global burden of disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age…”
circumcision
Boys, Too!
The website for NoCircND, the North Dakota affiliate of NOCIRC (the National Organization for Circumcision Information Recourse Centers), a tax exempt, 501.c.3, organization dedicated to providing information for professionals, policy makers and officials concerned about the welfare of children as well as the general public.
Circumcision Information and Resource Page (CIRP)
Information about all aspects of the genital surgery known as circumcision.
Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)
Founded by healthcare professionals to provide information to expectant parents, healthcare professionals, educators, lawyers, ethicists, and concerned individuals about circumcision and genital cutting of male, female, and intersex infants and children, genital integrity, and human rights.
Circumcision Resource Center
A Jewish organization consisting of researchers and clinicians in the fields of medicine, mental health, and social science. Based on a review of medical and psychological literature and their own research and experience they conclude that circumcision is not advisable.
Circumstitions
The struggle for genital integrity and against the involuntary genital modification of children of any sex: Circumcision; Female Genital Mutilation; Involuntary Sex Reassignment—Genital Integrity for All!
Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males
A direct-action men’s network organized against circumcision of healthy male infants and children.
diaper free
Born Potty Trained
Babies are BORN potty trained! Don’t train something you’ll just have to untrain later.
Diaper Free Baby
DiaperFreeBaby is a network of free support groups promoting a natural approach to responding to babies’ elimination needs. The process involves observing one’s baby’s signs and signals, providing cue sounds and elimination-place associations, and can be done with or without any diaper use.
Free to EC!
How a modern woman reconnected to some ancient wisdom. Elimination Communication (EC) is not just for African bush-women. EC is not just for free-living hippies. EC is not just for those who enjoy getting peed on…
Infant Potty Training
Growing community of mothers who are using infant potty training (IPT) with their babies, a method similar to the way mothers around the world have been handling the elimination issue for centuries.
Potty Whisperer
Part of a long-established child-rearing practice that lost favor to the hyper-convenient world of diapers and fast food – it is the gentle, loving, dual practice of being attentive and responsive to baby’s natural needs.
Tribal Baby
“How would we raise our baby if we were in a tribe?”
fertility
Living with Our Fertility
A women’s guide to synergistic fertility management: fertility awareness, herbs affecting the menstrual cycle, herbal contraception & herbal abortion.
Fertility Awareness Resources
A bibliography for fertility awareness and natural family planning.
Susun Weed
Website of celebrated natural herbalist and leader of the Wise Woman Way tradition, Susun Weed. Provides articles, forums and other resources on fertility and other women’s issues. Be sure to check out her book: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
games
CooperativeGames.com
Games with teamwork, fair play and nature as the theme.
GamesParentsTeachers.com
A parent-teacher toolkit.
Re-Mission
A challenging, 3D “shooter” game for young people with cancer: 20 levels take the player on a journey through the body of young patients with different kinds of cancer; designed to be cool and fun, while helping players to increase their personal knowledge about cancer and improve their confidence in their ability to manage their illness—free to young people with cancer.
Solar Power House Kit
An engaging introduction to regenerative energy sources – the thoughtfully designed series of experiments illustrate the adventure of building a home and living on a remote island. To survive, you must learn how to harness the power of the sun and the wind as well as tap the energy of other physical forces. The storyline follows the experiments in a stepwise fashion. For ages 12 and up.
Wildcraft!
A cooperative board game that teaches edible & medicinal plants. Great for younger kids, older kids and adults. No prior knowledge of plants is needed.
homeschooling
Homeschool World
The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine and The Big Book of Home Learning / Mary Pride’s Complete Guide to Homeschooling.
Homeschool.com
Homeschool.com was created to empower parents to create the ideal school for their child at home.
Homeschooling Basics (101)
About.com’s helpful guide to getting started in homeschool.
natural immunity
For Parents Wishing to Avoid Immunizations for their Children
Article by Harold E Buttram, MD about the fact that there are no long-term safety studies on any vaccination or immunization. For this reason, there are valid grounds for suspecting that many delayed-type vaccine reactions may be taking place unrecognized as to their true nature.
Mother Nurture
This site encourages a child-centred approach to parenting – a parenting style which creates prolonged healthy attachment between you and your child, and produces strong, confident, secure children.
Mothering
The magazine for natural family living.
PROVE
Parents Requesting Open Vaccination Education (PROVE) provides information on vaccines, and the immunization policies and practices that affect the children and adults of Texas. Their mission is to prevent vaccine injury and death and to promote and protect the right of every person to make informed independent vaccination decisions for themselves and their families.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
pregnancy
Susun Weed
Website of celebrated natural herbalist and leader of the Wise Woman Way tradition, Susun Weed. Provides articles, forums and other resources on pregnancy and other women’s issues. Be sure to check out her book: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year.
The Compleat Mother
The magazine of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
sacred birth
Born Free!
Welcome to Bornfree!, a site dedicated to the belief that women are the true experts of birth. Drugs, machinery, and medical personnel are no match for a woman’s own intellect and intuition. Birth is sexual and spiritual, magical and miraculous – but not when it’s managed, controlled, and manipulated by the medical establishment, or hindered by the mother’s own mind.
Mother Nurture
This site encourages a child-centred approach to parenting – a parenting style which creates prolonged healthy attachment between you and your child, and produces strong, confident, secure children.
The Compleat Mother
The magazine of pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
The Mother
International magazine of fertility awareness, conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, sacred birth, extended breastfeeding, natural immunity and attachment parenting.
unschooling
Family Unschoolers Network
Provides support for unschooling, homeschooling, and self-directed learning.
Radical Unschooling
This is the “office” of Sandra Dodd, unschooling mother of Kirby, Marty and Holly, who’ve never been to school.
Unschooling.com
Come explore unschooling.com, where parents and children have learned to trust themselves and each other!
support
Families for Natural Living
Non-profit educational organization that provides resources, education, support and camaraderie to parents who wish to make conscious, compassionate, informed choices when it comes to holistic health care, natural birthing, attachment parenting, alternative schooling, nutritious whole foods, and environmentally conscientious living.
The Continuum Concept
Forum and database for those interested in The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff.
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