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Primal Birthing

When I was pregnant with my first, at a baby shower, a woman told me her best advice was to “push as hard as you possibly can.” I was annoyed but couldn’t say why. Over the past few years and births, I’ve learned why. Michel Odent pointed the way. Dr Odent is a French Obstetrician well known for his research about how we are born and the period of time…

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Fear prevents Life

Author: Cynthia Alexander Website: https://holisticparentingmagazine.com Cynthia Alexander is Owner, Editor, and Publisher of Holistic Parenting Magazine. Cynthia Alexander is married to her soulmate and together they parent six delightfully vibrant children in the Colorado Rockies. She has a background in sociology and philosophy, and has enjoyed working as a birth doula and breastfeeding counselor for over a decade. She has founded and led several women’s groups, on a spectrum of communities and interests….

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Broken Spirit

Author: Cynthia Alexander Website: https://holisticparentingmagazine.com Cynthia Alexander is Owner, Editor, and Publisher of Holistic Parenting Magazine. Cynthia is married to her soulmate and together they parent six delightfully vibrant children in the Colorado Rockies. She has a background in sociology and philosophy, and has enjoyed working as a birth doula and breastfeeding counselor for over a decade. She has founded and led several women’s groups, on a spectrum of communities and interests….

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A Father’s Chest

Author: Cynthia Alexander Website: https://holisticparentingmagazine.com Cynthia Alexander is Owner, Editor, and Publisher of Holistic Parenting Magazine. Cynthia Alexander is married to her soulmate and together they parent six delightfully vibrant children in the Colorado Rockies. She has a background in sociology and philosophy, and has enjoyed working as a birth doula and breastfeeding counselor for over a decade. She has founded and led several women’s groups, on a spectrum of communities and interests….

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Experiential Learning

As featured in Issue 9 of HPM, written by Peter Bergson. Calls for “school reform” and other critiques of traditional forms of education invariably refer to a future state in which “creativity”, “innovation”, “critical thinking” and similar buzzwords are used to identify what employers will be seeking in their applicants, as opposed to the “compliance”, “standardized learning” and “mastery of the basics” sought for factory jobs both past and present….

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Beyond the Tiger Mom–East-West Parenting for the Global Age

Beyond the Tiger Mom–East-West Parenting for the Global Age By Maya Thiagarajan This thoroughly interesting book rests of the premise that Western and Eastern educational and parenting philosophies have vastly different strengths and weaknesses; therefore, parents on either side of the world can learn from each other. The author is in the uniqe position to experience and evaluate how we learn and what we learn, coming from a bicultural and…

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HPM Issue 15

Interesting articles, beautiful photography! HPM 15 is here! Purchase a copy of this awesome issue, or treat yourself to an annual subscription! Author: Debbie Simms Website: https://holisticparentingmagazine.com Debbie Simms is Owner, Editor, and Publisher of Holistic Parenting Magazine. Debbie Simms is married to her soulmate and together they parent six delightfully vibrant children in the Colorado Rockies. She has a background in sociology and philosophy, and has enjoyed working as a birth doula and…

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Trusting After Trauma (and some words for a fireman)

Eight months ago in a very tender Mama Bear moment, I found Mama Rose and her tiny home-based child-care space, RootRock Artgarden, in gorgeous rural western Sonoma County. Beam was ready for more variety in her life, and I was ready for a few more hours for myself every week. That’s when Mama Rose showed up. Today as I write this, Beam is at Mama Rose’s house for her final…

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The Problem With Punishment

Want to know a dirty, little secret about punishment? It doesn’t work. Punishment may be able to control a child’s behavior temporarily while they’re small or when they are in their parents’ presence, but it cannot control the person.  As with all humans, outward behavior is merely a reflection of our inner selves: our needs, our hurts, our emotional states. While the temporary ‘payoff’ of punishment may be compliance, the…

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