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Raising a family through attachment parenting, babywearing, breastfeeding, homebirthing, homeschooling and other instinctive parenting techniques.
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Raising a family through attachment parenting, babywearing, breastfeeding, homebirthing, homeschooling and other instinctive parenting techniques.
Our third was due two days after Halloween 2008. It was customary to drive out to my sister’s place so the boys could shell-out with their cousins, but we were nervous about being more than an hour from home. So we made a plan: Grandma would pick up the kids and take …
When Windy was about 18 months old, we decided we wanted another just like him. So, one dreary December day, I borrowed Daddy’s toothbrush and we started re-arranging furniture. In the new year, when all was confirmed and the grandparents were informed (I love breaking the “rules”), I started hunting for a new midwife. I [...]
It was Friday, April 25th, 2003: DaddyH and I had rented a couple of movies for the weekend, from the local Vietnamese video store. We were watching Session 9, not the best movie for a new mom to see (check it out, if you must know why). I remember sitting on the edge of my [...]
My daughter is two today! And she is officially a girl. She has spent the last year and a half playing with her older brothers’ toys – Transformers, trains, cars, light sabers, swords, guns and, most recently, Lego. She’s always had fun with them. She’s never known anything else. She has also always worn her [...]
Snippets from this week’s conversations: *** E: Mummy! He won’t let me hit him with this stick! M: Say that again? E: He won’t let me hit him with this stick! M: Say that one more time and listen to what you are saying. * M: He’s not supposed to be on the computer right [...]
This week I dusted off my ‘new juicer’ and tried some of my old favourites. This is my second juicer. I purchased it about 3 years ago because my first one, which worked fine, sounded like a chainsaw every time I started it up, so I couldn’t use it while the babes were sleeping. The new [...]
The choice to reproduce, for those of us fortunate enough to have one, is supported by many terms and conditions. Most of these are assumed from the get-go: less sleep, more mess, less control, more chaos, less sex, more cuddling. The “experts” (many of whom haven’t had children but have written lots of books about [...]
A friend of the family once told me: Having one is like having none. Having two is like having twenty. We have three. With our first, life didn’t really change much. Our neighbours gave us this fabulous sling, so we took him everywhere with us. We took him shopping, we took him to parties, we took [...]
Growing up, my family always had a Tickle Trunk. It was a big black old-fashioned thing with metal hinges and clasps – both my cousin and I could fit inside it. It had some really interesting costume pieces in it: old wedding veils, a couple of wigs, old shirts, ties, skirts, high heeled shoes, scarfs, [...]
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