Holiday articles:
The Gift Every Child Really Wants by Pam Leo
Ten Tips for Shopping with Children by Jan Hunt
Does the Santa Legend Endanger Trust? by Jan Hunt

Holiday Gift Ideas

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Quote of the Month

"Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list." - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Over 100 more quotes on attachment parenting and unschooling

"People talk about the 'problem child' but I'm not really sure what a problem child is. According to the Encarta online dictionary, a problem child is 'a child who requires a disproportionate amount of attention or correction.' This definition leads me to ask several questions..."  Read more

New Research: Breastfeeding Helps Ensure Mental and Emotional Health

11-04-08: Breastfeeding is associated with better intellectual and emotional development than bottle feeding, according to American Public Health Association findings. In a review of over 100,000 interviews, parents whose children breastfed as infants were less likely to report child behavior problems or psychiatric illness during the first 5 years of life. In addition, children who had breastfed for a year were less likely to have behavior problems than children who had breastfed for just two months. Read more

The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart
With a clear focus on mutual respect, The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart offers a loving and respectful approach to raising a happy, trusting and confident child.

The Unschooling Unmanual
"It helped me so much as a father to understand unschooling from so many different perspectives." - Joe Martin

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