Homeschooling and Parenting Articles
Compiled by LLM
from Lea's
Birth- A Case of Undisturbed Birth
Following is information about issues related
to gentle childrearing; including homeschooling,
attachment parenting, toilet readiness, infant
feeding, and newborn care. Parents! Share your
wisdom. Send
Leilah what you would like to add to this
section. Also visit the Children's
Health articles index, and see BirthLove's
childcare forums:
Also see BirthLove's Newsletters:
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On this page:
Childcare and Mothering
Articles
Articles that were written by LLM,
and appeared on the site when it was still "The
Revolutionary Passion of Mothering":
What
Newborns Really Want This covers newborn
care from an attachment parenting perspective:
on demand feeding, family bed, preventing breastfeeding
problems, healing bonding difficulties- and
opening up one's heart to the sweetest, richest
love she will ever know. Originally published
in 1998.
Everything's
Upside Down! Welcome to parenthood!
From
Breastmilk to Pizza Infant feeding
is simple.
Kinder
Toilet Training Easiest is best! Includes
"toilet training" updates of my 5th
and 6th children.
Parenting
Q&A Common questions asked and answered.
The
Eve-olutionary Advantage of Maternal Guilt
Guilt works!
Forget
Clean! Don't be shackled by housework!
Kids from the cleanest possible homes get sick
the most anyway.
If
There's No Me, There's No Us! Make time
for yourself.
It's good to be a cultural iconoclast; accept
No
Car, No Mortgage, No TV, and No Photos, Please!
Celebrate
Life Day A parent learning to celebrate
the miracle of life, as taught by a child's
near choking-to-death incident.
Activist parenting items:
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By Valarie Nordstrom, mother of nine:
Looking
With Our Eyes Reminiscences and musings
about children- both tiny and grown, and frustrating
moments with sweet children.- Love
of Nine Babies, Loves of My Life Valarie
has learned so much about love, life and spirit
by being the gentle conduit of Life. In this
article she covers so much- from why she homeschools,
to how wearisome it gets when people endlessly
comment on her large family.
- Where
Adoration Begins Valarie writes about
the lusciousness of being a mother- of how
delicious newborns are, and how even the big
kids can still make you cry. Includes family
pictures.
- Breastfeeding,
Togetherness, and Growing Up Valarie shares
what she has learned about family togetherness.
Includes sweet pictures.
An Anthropological
Look at Extended Breastfeeding and Cosleeping
Amazing information about what the actual
optimal length of breastfeeding is for placental
mammals, and just how beneficial cosleeping
really is.
"Responsible
Parenting" A letter to the editor from
a midwife that shows how parents' true responsibility
is ritualistically usurped, right from their
children's conception.
Why
Women Cradle Babies on the Left Women are
twice as likely to hold babies on their left
sides.
Dealing
with the CPS A police officer shares
the best ways to prevent problems when the social
workers come to call. This page includes a response
by LLM.
What
about siblings at homebirths- and child spacing?
A mother of four shares links and wisdom about
attachment parenting from birth and beyond.
Note that Melissa had three home VBACs.
"My
boy needs dental surgery under general anesthetic-
wisdom please!" Many loving responses
regarding ways to make the general anesthetic
and surgical experiences the least traumatic
for the child (and mother). Including: alternatives
to GA.
The
Miracle of My Daughter, the Miracle of My Life
KelLee Gray's little daughter almost died due
to drowning. She recovered, miraculously; but
now lives with special needs. KelLee's life
was changed profoundly. Ths includes a bit about
KelLee's pregnancies and births, and a family
photo.
To
Love a Newborn Jessica gave birth to her
fourth child, and wrote with luscious abandon
about the precious joy yet sadness a newborn
brings (sadness due to how quickly they grow).
This links to her birth stories, and includes
a lovely photo.
My
Life as a New Mom Melissa Mead, who has
written a pregnancy journal for BirthLove, has
written honestly and movingly about how she
has found life as a new mother.
Homeschooler Daniel Myers making a fruit
loop necklace in the Cereal Museum of Battle
Creek.
Life,
My Lessons Continue...... Kim Hudson, mother
of seven, talks about what her newest baby has
taught her- including the joys of Babymoon,
and how to give some mother's love to herself.
link fixed
Advice
for New Moms -from Lora Harris, a gentle
homeschooling mother of two.
"Abuse toward women and children now
running rampant in our elected government"
(view page here.)
A BC mother is angry about the damaging funding
cuts the new government is making- with women
and children suffering as a result.
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Homeschooler Arthur Myers making
a clay creation at home
Homeschooling Articles
See the BirthLove newsletter- Unschooling
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal
government, there is found state education.
It has been discovered that the best way to
insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny
in the nursery." -(1874) Benjamin Disraeli
Homeschooling articles by LLM:
Unschooling:
Giving the Gift of Childhood A mother of
three shares her experiences with the public
school system, Charter school, and then ultimately,
doing nothing at all to "teach" her
children- and then watching them thrive.
Wendy Priesnitz is the mother of two
unschooled daughters, ages 26 and 29, and is
the author of nine books, including Challenging
Assumptions In Education (2000) and School Free–
The Home Schooling Handbook (1987). She edits
"Natural Life", a 24-year-old alternative
newsmagazine, is the founder of the Canadian
Alliance of Home Schoolers (1979), and is a
popular public speaker. For more information,
go to Wendy's
website.
Excerpts of Wendy's articles:
Class action
suit against Ritalin Powerful evidence
shows that the drug company Ciba has been manipulating
just about everyone regarding the toxic, dangerous
drug Ritalin. Also on this page- what Ritalin
does to kids.
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Homeschooling Links
Add your favorite links- email
Leilah!
- The
Home School Legal Defense Association
-they are committed to defending the legal rights
of home-educating parents.
- Homeschooling
articles at Natural Life Magazine Articles,
resources, book and more, all designed to help
you learn everything you need to know about
homeschooling (sometimes called deschooling,
unschooling, or child-directed home-based learning).
- Canadian
Homeschool Resource Page -invaluable
resource; with provincial information and inernational
links.
- Unschooling.com
includes a FAQ on free learning, legal info
on US unschooling, unschoolers' resources, a
bulletin board, and a OneList unschooler's email
list.
- National
Home Education Research Institute
- "
Learn in Freedom"
- Jon's
Homeschool Resource Page
- The
Fraud of Child Psychiatry, ADD/ADHD, and Ritalin
-books and links.
- Born
to Explore- The Other Side of ADD
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