Healthy Family
Why do U.S. Born Kids Have More Allergies than Immigrants?
New research published in the recent issue of JAMA Pediatrics shows a startling disparity between children born in the U.S. and those who immigrate from other parts of the world: The foreign children have nearly half the risk of developing allergies and asthma as the U.S....
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Drugs And ADHD In Children
Stimulant drugs are the conventional treatment of choice for treating the symptoms of ADHD. At least 30% of children prescribed these drugs find them ineffective, or cannot tolerate them. For these children, finding an alternative is essential. For a majority of other...
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Can Children Lose Weight Surfing the Web?
Childhood obesity is a serious issue in our country layered in a number of contributing factors that arent necessarily easy to undo. However new research has found social media may be one way to target this life-threatening disease.According to the Centers for Diseas...
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Healthy New Year's Resolutions
It’s here… the holiday season; full of tempting treats and colder weather. Perhaps you’re overindulging on sweets, overeating at holiday gatherings and exercising less. All of which adds up to extra pounds on the scale. Once New Year’s Day arrives, many people start thin...
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Natural Treatment for Eczema
Eczema treatment can be done without the use of medication. In fact, there are natural treatments available and you just have to know what these are. The first natural remedy is probiotics. This is good bacteria and we have this inside our bodies. It suppresses the ...
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Build a Happy World for Your Baby
When your beautiful baby is born, a million things enter your mind: How will I pay for college? What will I wear when he wins the Nobel Prize/U.S. Presidency/World Series? But before any of those things can happen, you have a lot of decisions to make and actio...
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Perfecting the (Green) Picnic
As soon as the frost fades, I itch to dine alfresco, preferably in the grass, preferably with bare toes. And as dining outside becomes an increasingly common event for my family, I’m always looking for ways to green our picnic. My first commitment to a p...
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When breastfeeding goes almost as planned.
By the time I had my second baby, I had no doubt that I would successfully breastfeed my new baby. I mean, even with the issues I had with my first baby, I felt that I knew what I needed to do to make sure this baby was breastfed exclusively. But, still I again atte...
Read more...When breastfeeding doesn’t go as planned
My sister had a baby before I did, but because of lack of support, she wasn’t able to continue breastfeeding her new baby girl. So, a few years later when I was pregnant with my own first baby girl, I remembered her experience. When I was 8 months pregnant, I began attendi...
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What is Glutathione?
How on earth do you pronounce it, was my first thought when I saw this word for the first time. “Glue – tah – thigh – own”, not too hard compared with some others I’ve had to learn! Last July, at a Mindd Foundation seminar, I learnt about Glutathione from a pr...
Read more...Steps to Mend a Relationship after Infidelity
Infidelity has been in the news lately. Well-known athletes, Hollywood stars, and politicians have been making public apologies for their ‘indiscretions.’ Many people in similar situations are willing to forgive, but what are the steps to mend a relationship after infi...
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4 “Green” Products: Earth Friendly Baby
1. Earth Friendly Baby Organic Lavender Shampoo & Bodywash Finding a safe, organic bodywash and shampoo for your little one is not as easy as it sounds. I had my first wake up call with my son’s sensitive skin erupting in rashes after using “natural” and “organic” pro...
Read more...Pop-Tarts – Made for Fun. Really?
Tonight as I watched a recorded TV show (that ran during prime time), I came across a commercial about Pop-Tarts. It had these happy looking cartoon features (kids and mom), lots of colors, most of which looked like candy and then the tag-line for the Pop-Tarts was “Made f...
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Official Book Review: Run Like a Girl
A very long time ago (like, before I was pregnant or even a homeowner), Mina Samuels sent me a copy of Run Like a Girl to review. Even though life got the best of me over the past few months, I did what I could to stick with it because I truly began to enjoy it from pa...
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1/3 women should give birth “without a doctor"
When it is time to give birth, it can feel like things become out of your control. Sure, you may have a birth plan written out or envisioned the perfect birth, but nature and those tending to you have a lot of influence over what actually happens. Whether it is a h...
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5 Steps to a Healthy Nursery
Taking toxic materials out of the nursery is becoming a top priority for new parents. Creating a green nursery just makes sense since your delicate little one will spend up to 17-hours a day in there! Consider everything your baby comes in contact with and choose yo...
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5 Ways to Raise Natural Children
As your children get older and venture out into the world, making their own decisions, you wonder if they will adhere to the values you taught them at home—especially when it comes to living a natural lifestyle. “Will they choose the fruit over the ice cream?” or “Will he rem...
Read more...Safety Tips for Teenaged Drivers
As soon as a kid turns thirteen years old they start counting the days until they are old enough to learn to drive. They yearn for independence and might think being able to drive will allow for it. Parents wish to see to it their teenagers remain safe. These safety pointers ...
Read more...Eczema Treatment and Pregnancy
A woman with eczema during pregnancy is swamped with a lot of concerns. Should she continue her typical eczema treatment? Will it not have some nasty effects on the baby shes carrying in her womb? Its normal for her to be concerned about both her and her babys health when it c...
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Meditations on the First Spanking Study
Spanking. Many parents do it, but few admit to it. And for those of us who were spanked as children, our reaction is often, “I was spanked, and I turned out alright.” For me, the road away from spanking was the logical path when leaving violence behind in our lives...
Read more...Organic Children’s Sleepwear Recalled
My children do not wear sleepwear ladened with flame retardants. I always seek out 100% cotton pajamas that are made to fit snugly and thus do not require passing flammability tests. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) explains: What is the purpose of...
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No Boys Allowed
I’d like to bring the topic of gender awareness to the table to discuss here at Natural Parenting Tips. I’ve been observing the interactions of little people recently, and have noticed that as children reach school age, there seems to be a tendency for them to decide to f...
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Mothering and Merriment
July is dominated by the energy of the Sun in Cancer. The sentimental, warm, lovey-dovey feeling makes you want to stick close to home and enjoy a good meal and a movie. It is also the season of picnics, hanging out by lakes and rivers and spending extra time with f...
Read more...Severity of Childhood Food Allergies
Alisa Fleming ~ Eight percent of kids under the age of 18 live with food allergies according to a new study published this month in the journal Pediatrics. Putting it into perspective, that is the equivalent of one in every 12 to 13 children, or a total of six million litt...
Read more...Holistic Parenting
For believers in holistic health, extending these practices to your parenting is only natural. After all, being a parent is an essential part of your identity, and it would be impossible to function in your role as a parent as without somehow incorporating everything you have ...
Read more...The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading
Nicole Faires book, The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading, has been working its way into our evening reading. It sits in our fireplace actually, no disrespect intended, of course! The opening to the chimney is tiled over and turning it into a working fireplace is on our (lo...
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MotherHOOD
You know how they say that when black people are shopping or in a crowd, when they see another black person they say Hey, Bro. Sometimes they even just nod at each other. One guy told me its because they are a minority and it just feels good to see another brothe...
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Longest Married Couple in the World
This is such a wonderful story I had to share it with you! Aside from the picture of course. You know me, I love funny cartoons. Tee hee... Whenever I hear a couple has made it past the 20-year mark of their marriage, I start to revere ...
Read more...Kids Say Hilarious Things!
Last night I went to go pick up my sons friend at around 11pm. I asked him what time his mom normally gets up in the morning. He said 5am because she has to get up and babysit at 7am. I asked, Yes, but why get up so early? He replied, Because she has to get up and open...
Read more...When Life Happens... Drink Coffee
Im extremely tired as all heck. Been gone since Friday (just Ivy and I), then gone on Sunday for church with visiting places in between, gone all Monday. Then a family member showed up at my door 5:30am in horrible pain. I woke up to hearing my dogs barking very loudly. I ...
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Co-sleeping is just not safe?
Rather than educate parents on safe co-sleeping, the mainstream media loves to expose this ancient attachment parenting practice as dangerous. A new study goes even farther to increase the statistics of infant deaths caused by co-sleeping claiming there are many “un...
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What the Heck am I Supposed to Do with these Kids All Summer Anyway?
Its only been two weeks since school let out for the summer and Im already going bonkers. Bonkers I tell you. We live in the desert and its already 100+ degrees outside. Thats hot. The parks, bike trails and golf courses are all deserted and dusty. The animals in ...
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Nestlé’s BabyNes
I can’t say I really understand the single serve coffee craze. The disposable K-cups are certainly not eco-friendly, and my stovetop espresso machine does a great job of making my one latte a day. Perhaps my judgement is unfair, as I have only had one cup of coffee made...
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
The National Association for the Education (NAEYC) is the premier advocacy group for young children. Their position statements and publications are used to influence policy both in private and public education. In fact, I have used their recommendations to advocate that...
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On Getting Kicked Out of a Middle School
For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Common Dreams, a progressive news site. Here are a couple excerpts: Imagine our surprise when ten minutes after the presentation we found out that the second one was canceled. The principal – who’d c...
Read more...June Love Drop: The Aubin Family
June Love Drop: The Aubin Family Hey guys! The Love Drop team is at i...
Read more...Teens and Independence
I often hear parents say they wish they had a manual on how to raise caring kids. Of course, there are many including the work of Dr. Michele Borba, who is one of the leading experts on nurturing character in kids. After reviewing hundreds of articles, book excerpts,...
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The Family that Camps Together
It is essential for every family to spend quality sleepless nights together in a tent—to strip off the tie, the watch, the shampoo, the cell phone, the bed —to forget the paperwork, the appointment, the meeting, the post, the tweet and get seriously dirty. Camping allows...
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Keep Calm and Carry On
On the instruction of King George VI, this brilliant piece of propaganda was created in 1939 by the British Government’s Ministry of Information. It was intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of invasion during World War II. At the time, it w...
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FITori thoughts on pregnancy
I’ve been holding out on sharing these maternity photos! Sorry about that! I am still holding out a little because I have 10 or so more pics I’ll share with you soon that my BFF took the night before my shower a few weeks ago. FIRST OF ALL, aren’t this pics am...
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