Childcare

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  Big Happy Family, At What Cost?

  When we become parents we dream of fun, happy times together… sharing enriching conversation around wonderful meals, taking beach vacations together and playing in the ocean and sand, gathering often, or even just occasionally, for meaningful celebrations. We like to believe that if we do everything right – love and nurture our children – that [...]

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  Baby Table Manners! (With Video)

  Baby Table Manners (With Video) I am continually amazed by how capable babies are. Sometimes words, however descriptive (even mine!), can’t do them justice. So, I’ve attached a video from one of my classes to this post to visually demonstrate. Please have a look — no actors were hired! I was stunned to learn years [...]

Big Happy Family, At What Cost?

July 7 Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Self Nurturing no comments

When we become parents we dream of fun, happy times together… sharing enriching conversation around wonderful meals, taking beach vacations together and playing in the ocean and sand, gathering often, or even just...

Baby Table Manners! (With Video)

November 21 Babies, Child development, Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Conscious Parenting no comments

Baby Table Manners (With Video) I am continually amazed by how capable babies are. Sometimes words, however descriptive (even mine!), can’t do them justice. So, I’ve attached a video from one of my classes to...

Kids in Care

January 15 Child development, Childcare, Conscious Parenting no comments

Published in Byronchild/Kindred as part of a larger feature Who Cares? Making Informed Choices About ChildCare. See also Mothering Matters I am a formally trained primary school teacher but have spent the last six months...

Mothering Matters

January 15 Babies, Child development, Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Mothering, early years, Social Ecology, Social Justice 1 comment

We pay almost anyone to look after infants — except their mothers. Evidence that good mothering matters, both for the individual and for society, is steadily growing. More reports from the Early Child Care Network ...

Alternative Healing Modalities and Your Child

April 20 Child development, Childcare, Psychology / Self-help, Spirituality, Wellbeing no comments

As adults, we often consider seeing a bodywork practitioner for our own well-being. But often we overlook those modalities for our children. Children are incarnating beings. That is, they are becoming flesh and blood. Th...

You and Me Against the World

April 20 Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Social Justice, Wellbeing no comments

As I researched and wrote Naked Motherhood and its subsequent thesis, I oscillated between believing I was articulating the experiences of a silent and silenced major minority in our society to wondering whether I was ma...

Who Cares? Making Informed Choices about Childcare

December 8 Child development, Childcare, Sustainability 3 comments

As extended families shrink, communities dwindle and the need to work increases, the need for childcare grows. But at what cost? Where are those ‘smug stay-at-home mums’ that people keep talking about? They m...

Feminism Childcare and Family Mental Health: Have women been misled by...

December 8 Babies, Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Culture, Mothering, early years, Social Ecology, Social Justice 1 comment

Childcare seems to be always on the political agenda. But are the real needs of babies, very young children and their mothers being ignored in the short-term interests of the economy and the burgeoning childcare ‘i...

Practical Tools for ‘Misbehaviour’ and Setting Limits: a l...

December 7 Child development, Childcare, Conscious Parenting no comments

It is our view that infants are genetically biased towards interaction with other people from the beginning. A child is pre-adapted to a social world, and in this sense is social from the beginning. If an infant is reare...

A Call to Arms

November 23 Child development, Childcare, Conscious Parenting, Social Justice no comments

Kelly Wendorf didn’t know she was political, until she became a mother and realised that raising a healthy happy child in a culture completely at odds with family was one of the greatest political act. One rarely t...