Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves is a great book about parenting. The author, Naomi Aldort, stresses the need to validate your children’s feelings and let them work through them on their own, instead of the more common method of trying to distract them from their feelings. She emphasizes that our children should not have to always act in accordance with our needs. If it is not unsafe or hurting anyone, why not let them climb those rocks and get filthy? Or even go so far as act out their power struggles on you. Additionally, she helps parents consider ways to give their children more autonomy. All of this felt really intuitive to me and I appreciated her advice. However, there is a catch. Read more »
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Choosing whether or not to vaccinate my baby was one of the most difficult parenting decisions I had to make. Back in the day, people were happy just to have vaccines, but nowadays, there is so much controversy around them, you can’t take it lightly. When it was time to take my daughter to her first doctor appointment, I knew that I had to go equipped with the necessary knowledge or be bulldozed by an M.D. Read more »
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Physical Health | admin May 27, 2009 | 
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A librarian friend gave this to me, so that is the first clue that this is a good book. Unfortunately, I gave it to my daughter a little too young and she tore out the super special pop-out surprise in the end. I don’t want to give it away, but you can figure it out. Anyway, this is a great book for spring and a great book for a little one learning their colors. Read more »
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Every new mom needs one of these, an instructional guide on what the hell to do with that brand new creature only days in the oxygen. From bathing to dressing to nursing to sleeping, there is so much you want to get right. As you may know, I don’t exactly believe in a “right” way. We all have to just do our best and follow our values, but there is a way to do it so that you don’t drown or suffocate your child. I rely on
The Baby Book by Dr. Sears.
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