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I mean, more breastfeeding news… A mother in Grand Forks, North Dakota has been charged with child neglect and sentenced to 6 months in jail. Her crime? Breastfeeding while intoxicated. (Been there. Done that. But she was probably super shitfaced, not just nicely buzzed, sitting on the floor with the toddler waiting for Stefan to finish playing [...] For Attachment Parents: How to maintain a romantic relationship during the Family Bed years… While I’m busy slapping random crap on my blog, millions and millions of blogs out there are doing the same thing. I don’t need to tell you 90% of the Internet is mindless slop. But for those of you interested in well-written, intelligent information about group process and community living and introspection and human interaction [...] Want to know the most-commonly-kept-secret parenting tool? The Family Bed. Even if they don’t plan to, many new parents quickly realize they’re going to get more sleep and the baby/toddler/preschooler’s going to get more sleep if everyone does what every other mammal does: snuggle together, safe from the world. Oh but that’s horrible! I mean, [...] I’ve found that when I cook with Colin, he’ll eat. He’s a great cook and he loves to explore various processes. Today we made a stew. Yes, that’s his little naked bottom peeking out behind the apron. No, he didn’t burn himself. Never does. He does flick food when he stirs the pot – he’s [...] Be a Great Animal Guardian and Parent (At The Same Time) When I was pregnant with my first baby, I heard a new mother explain that since her baby was born she’d started ignoring her dog. “Before my baby came,” she said, “my dog was literally my best friend. He [...] Stefan and I have a philosophy about “please” and “thank you” and the teaching of those magic words to our kids. We recognize that our culture values those polite words and that our kids saying them can mean the difference between someone approving of the kids or thinking that they’re rude. However, we also believe [...] Gianna loves Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese fake cream cheese product. It’s fully hydrogenated, like Crisco, and I would argue it’s less healthy than traditional cream cheese, but it’s vegan. It’s the kind of so-called food that children eat with their fingers, straight out of the container. So I told Gianna to please not eat [...] I wrote this essay when Gianna was a baby for Vegetarian Baby magazine. One bit of feedback I got was that I was criticizing people who were allergic to peanuts. I thought I was being self-deprecating. It’s a matter of perspective, I imagine. When she was six months old, my daughter and I went to our [...] When a parent says that their child has a sweet habit, a habit that they just love, listen carefully. You just might get the full picture of just how heartwarming it is for that adult, just how much our hearts melt when our children do this particularly sweet thing. Our whole world collapses and nothing [...] |
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