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"Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success. When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl. The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling." - Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish |
In order to have a healthy, balanced community, it is important to have healthy, balanced families and individuals within the community. In this section, you will find information about different family structures, natural child birth, child raising, and alternative ways of learning.
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Attachment Parenting
Attachment ParentingAttachment Parenting International - Attachment Parenting International (API) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization, networking with parents, professionals and like-minded organizations around the world. In addition to providing assistance in forming Attachment Parenting support groups, API provides educational materials, research information, consultative, referral and speaker services to promote Attachment Parenting concepts.
Aware Parenting Institute - Aware Parenting is a philosophy of child-rearing that has the potential to change the world. Based on cutting-edge research and insights in child development, Aware Parenting questions most traditional assumptions about children, and proposes a new approach that can profoundly shift a parent's relationship with his or her child. Parents who follow this approach raise children who are bright, compassionate, competent, non-violent, and drug-free.
Diaper Free! - Throughout most of human existence, parents have cared for their babies hygienically without diapers. In many cutures around the world, mothers still know how to tune in to their infants to keep them clean and content. Your baby, too, can enjoy the comfort of this natural approach, whether you use diapers or not.
Every Parent's Guide to Attachment Parenting
Liedloff Continuum Network, The - This website has been created by members of the Liedloff Continuum Network (LCN) to educate and serve the public -- especially parents, parents-to-be and anyone who cares about the well-being of infants and children -- by advocating the principles described in The Continuum Concept and suggesting practical ways to integrate them into daily life. We also hope to serve those who are recovering from the adverse effects of a modern, "non-continuum" upbringing, and who may or may not be parents themselves.
Mom's Rising! - MomsRising has a goal of bringing millions of people, who all share a common concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America, together as a non-partisan force for 2008 and beyond. This grassroots, online effort is mobilizing mothers, and all who have mothers, across America as a cohesive force for change. Started this May 2006, MomsRising already has over 120,000 citizen members--and is growing by 500 to 4,000 per week lately, as well as more than eighty (and growing) aligned national organizations, working together to create positive solutions for the future.
The Natural Child Project - Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.
Peapods: Attachment Parenting, Baby Care, Cloth Diapers, Slings and Toys
Breast Feeding
Breast and BabyWorld Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
Family Structure
TV Turnoff NetworkHome Schooling
Growing Without SchoolingNatural Childbirth
Birth Without ViolenceChoosing a Certified Nurse-Midwife
Rites of Passage
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Understanding The Male Archetypes - Based on the book "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine", which is a pscho-spiritual manual for masculine "hard wiring." Personality traits, social structures, and even life patterns are traced throughout the ages as they are mirrored over and over again in mythology, poetry and art.