Archive for August, 2010

101 Things To Do Instead of Yelling or Spanking

August 31st, 2010 by Dionna - 100 Comments

If you have come to a point in a challenging situation with your child where you feel that the only thing left to do is to yell at or strike your child, step away from the child. Here are 101 things you can do instead of yelling or spanking: Take…

Gentle Parenting Ideas: Traveling with Toddlers

August 30th, 2010 by Dionna - 7 Comments

This post is the sixth in a series about gentle parenting through potential power struggles with your toddler. Each post will give you ideas and examples for using love and logic to work through some fairly common parent/toddler areas of concern: brushing teeth, getting into the car seat, meals/eating, shopping,…

The Joys of Breastfeeding Past Infancy #20

August 27th, 2010 by Dionna - 41 Comments

Today I am happy to host a guest post by Heather. Heather (aka Mommypotamus) is a SAHM that will be welcoming her second child via home waterbirth any day now. She loves to nurture her family through delicious local, organic meals and practices natural parenting methods like full-term breastfeeding, cloth…

A Corporal Punishment Fallacy

August 26th, 2010 by Dionna - 61 Comments

There is a “Likey” going around Facebook that says: “I’d rather go to jail for spanking my kids than for them to go because I didn’t.” Allow me to present the fallacy of such an assertion: Eighty percent of prisoners in the United States were abused as children or raised…

Why We Chose Cloth Diapers, Part 3

August 25th, 2010 by Dionna - 3 Comments

This is part three in a series in which I discuss why my family uses cloth rather than disposable diapers. In part one I looked at the environmental impact of both diapering systems. I presented research on the health concerns of each system in part two. Today I will give…

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