Holiday Volunteering for Attached Families

Why Not Volunteer This Holiday Season for a Good Cause? It’s been said that the holiday spirit is about giving, not receiving. Yet it’s hard to get past the materialism and commercialism of the season as gift-buying reaches a feverish pitch. If you are looking for a way to give more meaning to the holidays, [...]

Learning To Share Fun Park Game

Introduce preschoolers to the concept of sharing and fair play with this fun game. In the Noodleboro Fun Park game, kids visit the Ferris wheel, Log Flume, Circus, and more to earn sharing stars for the group. An audio CD and a storybook enhance game play. This game for kids ages 4 and older uses a [...]

Kitchen Stands for Kids

Kids like to be involved in the kitchen. They want to be a part of the action and it is a great place for learning and bonding. Kitchen stands are becoming a hot item among natural, attached moms because they make it so easy to bring the kids into the kitchen with us. Take a [...]

Naturally Treating Dental Caries with Good Nutrition

Early childhood caries has risen to the top of the list of childhood diseases with over 25 percent of children affected. Dentists will attribute poor oral hygiene, nighttime nursing and starchy foods as the cause. Unfortunately, many of the affected children do brush their teeth well, eat a reasonable diet, and not all of them [...]

How To Obtain Baby Essentials Frugally

Many parents spend what should be a joyful time – pregnancy – worrying about how they’re going to buy all the gear babies need in time for the little one’s arrival. Are there any ways to get the items you need for the new arrival without spending a lot of money? Absolutely. Here are some [...]

Baby Wearing

One new craze that has been reappearing over the last few of years is wearing your baby in a sling, wrap, or baby carrier. There are hundreds of companies now available that make these slings, wraps and baby carriers so you can literally wear your baby whenever you want. Many different styles ensure that you [...]

Preventing Nature Deficit Disorder

If your child gives you a glazed look when you suggest taking a walk in the yard or to the park to enjoy the outdoors he may have “nature deficit disorder.”  Author Richard Louv coined this phrase in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods.  What Louv was referring to was the reality that [...]

Does Your Child Have Nature Deficit Disorder?

Is your child suffering from not spending enough time in nature? Richard Louv, author of Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, asserts that many modern children do. In fact, other medical and mental health experts and a growing body of researchers are also concerned about how little time our children [...]

Entertaining Kids Without Electronics

It has taken some time, but finally there is widespread awareness that electronic games are contributing to the poor health of our kids.  Studies are showing that kids in general are spending approximately 5 hours a day in front of the TV and/or game video screen. Sure some of these games can be entertaining or [...]

Be A Parenting Original

A fundamental part of being a natural lifestyle in an unnatural world is to question conventional wisdom.  Conventional wisdom isn’t necessarily wrong.  We just need to shed the attitude that so many people can’t be wrong.  The truth is that a lot of conventional wisdom isn’t so much believed by the masses as it is [...]

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