by Melodie on March 11th, 2010

I grew up in a home where love was shown through food. Baked goods to be exact. Luckily I got off easy. With the exception of my 14th year when I attempted to be bulimic (I could never get past the gagging part and I was scared of Ex-Lax™) and live off Slim Fast™ and Fibre [...]

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by Melodie on February 26th, 2010

I have been a vegetarian for approximately 18 years. Over the years I have come to learn how to be a very healthy vegetarian and I have enjoyed excellent health as a result of learning about the nutritional benefits of my diet. This is turn has fueled my passion and my reasons for becoming vegetarian [...]

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Is it always bad to advertise for baby bottles? Does it always break the WHO International Code of Marketing Breast milk Substitutes? Would it be unethical of a blog to advertise for baby bottles if no imagery was used? What about if that site was a beastfeeding site and the ad was meant solely for [...]

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by Melodie on January 12th, 2010

Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting resolutions!
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how we want to parent differently — or the same — in the New Year. Please read to the end [...]

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by Melodie on December 22nd, 2009

Today is Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It’s one of Mother’s Nature’s holidays, I tell my girls. So today we celebrated by going to the skating rink – their first time ever on real skates! They loved it! Afterwards we headed to a nearby, abandoned cemetary in the forest and sprinkled the headstones [...]

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by Melodie on November 30th, 2009

I parent by nature because nature is the God in my bones. I cherish an ideal of parenting that keeps me close to the Earth and is as instinctive as the rooting mouth of an infant. While it is easy to find a community of mothers who also subscribe to natural parenting values — “crunchy” moms if [...]

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by breastfeedingmomsunite on November 26th, 2009

The Waldorf Christmas Fair is my personal holiday highlight of the year. I look forward to it almost as much as I look forward to Christmas. The joy and magic is absolutely intoxicating. If you’ve never been to one – you must!
First of all there are the people. Waldorfians, if I may call them that, [...]

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