With so much in the news and on social media these days about phones and parenting, technology and the science of kindness, and the impact of a mother’s love on the size and structures of her child’s brain, it is good to have a peek at some of the researching behind the buzz of neuroplasticity.…read more >
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Traveling Family Interview: Meet the Hibbles
I am pleased to introduce the Hibble family: Geoff and Robin, along with their children, Connor, Ethan and Stella. The Hibbles are the next family to be featured in our series of Traveling Family interviews. Having just completed a year of RV travel throughout the USA and Canada, they have just begun another year…read more >
World Prematurity Day and Kangaroo Care
The second annual World Prematurity Day was observed on November 17, 2012. The World Health Organization (WHO), as well as numerous countries around the world continue to work to bring attention and change to the global challenge of the preterm births, which is the leading cause of neonatal mortality and the number two cause of…read more >
How To Keep Your Family’s Travel Spark Alive Between Trips
For those of us with a solid case of wanderlust, it can be tough to be too long between travels. Your ears search out exotic notes in the voices around you, your belly begs for street vendors and ethnic take-out and your passport looks down right pitiful gathering dust, it’s last inking a distance memory.…read more >
Almond Orange Cake To Share With a Mother After Giving Birth
My first bite of this amazing cake was soon after my son was born. My mother-in-law brought over a few pieces for my husband and me in those early days when a meal delivery was an incredible gift. It was love at first bite and I shamelessly asked her to make us…read more >
How to Use Your Public Library to Help Grow Your Child’s Love For Books
There are his words, and his dance moves that are so perfectly in cue with the beat, there is his love of running as quickly as he can, and jumping in place while hooting with glee. He is enjoying his body and all the ways he can move and express himself with it all. As…read more >
How to Start a Babywearing Lending Library
Where do you go if you want to rent books? The library. So why can’t the same principle be applied to baby carriers? Well, it can! What is a lending library? Quite simply, it is a place to rent baby carriers. Some people rent lots of different carriers in their pursuit of the right one…read more >
Invest in Your Community: Five Ways to Support a Family With a Newborn
It has been almost two years since our son was newly born, but I can still remember how loved and supported my husband and I felt by our community during that incredibly precious window. Those of you with children know that having a newborn come into your life is a real game changer. No…read more >
How One Mother Practices Attachment Parenting While Bottle Feeding
When I found out I was pregnant, I knew I would breastfeed. My mother had breastfed me, and my husband’s mother breastfed him. I knew of the benefits, and more importantly, I knew it was the natural choice. I was all for natural “attachment parenting”- I wanted to give birth all naturally, cloth diaper, babywear,…read more >
Kangaroo Care Eases Parental Anxiety
Six weeks out of the year about 40 horses run wild in the open space behind my house. While attempting to lure them close to the barbed wire with carrots and long green grass, I met two ten year old twin boys and their mother. After complementing me on my three kids, she went on…read more >
