Category: Child Safety
Why Doesn’t Music Come With Age Restrictions?
| November 22, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety, On Mama's Mind |
I grew up in a home devoid of pop music. We listened to a lot of Christian music – think Amy Grant and Twila Paris – Jewish music and Christian children’s tapes. In my teens I ‘rebelled’ against this and started listening to Christian Adult Contemporary music – have you ever heard of Carmen? –… more
A Rose By Any Other Name…
| October 20, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety |
Regular readers might have noticed something strange…. we’ve changed our daughter’s name to Ameli. There are two things I should explain about this action: It’s taken almost two years to come to the decision, and there are plenty of reasons for it. One is that I’ve been thinking a lot about security and safety. While… more
The Problem With Principles
| June 7, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Current Events |
I’ve been in a quandary lately. While I would love to live in a world where my daughter could wear only organic clothing, eat only organic food, play in the garden all day with her wood only toys and support only local and parent-run small businesses, this is simply not our lives. more
How Safe Is Childproofing In The Long Run?
| March 3, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety |
Google ‘childproof your home’ and you’ll come up with a list as long as your arm with reasons why you should childproof, how you should childproof and what you can buy to childproof. There’s very little, however, on the dangers of childproofing your home. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not recommending that you allow… more
Co-Sleeping and Breastfeeding
| January 25, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Cosleeping, Night Time Parenting |
A reader asked me to write about co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Although this is something we’ve been doing since around one and a half hours after Ameli’s birth – she was born at 4.40am, we were asleep in our bed by six – it’s still a hard topic to write about because I’ve never really thought… more
News Of The Week: Everyday Chemicals May Be Harming Kids
| November 13, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Child Health, Child Safety, Current Events |
If I had a £1 for every time I had said to people ‘just because there’s a smiling baby on the cover doesn’t mean it’s good for your baby’, well, I’d have a lot more money in my wallet. So I was absolutely thrilled this week to find a CNN article confirming what I have… more
Meducation for Mums Talks Nurofen
| September 10, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Child Safety |
I was recently invited to a seminar on child health sponsored by Nurofen, Bonjela and Karvol. The two speakers were Sarah Jarvis, a GP, and Dawn Kelly, a health visitor. more
Guidelines for Safe Formula Feeding
| August 28, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Child Safety, Reading and Resources |
I am unapologetically pro-breastfeeding: I think it is absolutely normal and everything else is sub-standard. But I am also passionately pro babies being safe, and when a mother cannot or chooses not to breastfeed her child, or for whatever reason makes the decision to formula feed, I think it is essential that she is equipped… more
If Pretending Made It So: We Need Education Not Denial
| August 27, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety, Cosleeping |
Information. It is so vital to our survival. Misinformation, on the other hand is a killer. Can you imagine if you were told that a red traffic light meant ‘go’? What chaos would reign in your life, if you lived very long at all? I have been sorely disturbed in recent months by the information… more
The Downside of Stranger Danger
| August 24, 2010 | Posted by Luschka under Attachment Parenting, Child Safety, Raising Conscious Children |
Lenore Skenazy on Parentdish recently wrote ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ is dangerous advice in which she suggests that rather than teaching our children not to talk to strangers, we should teach them which strangers to turn to. more
Lenore Skenazy on Parentdish recently wrote ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ is dangerous advice in which she suggests that rather than teaching our children not to talk to strangers, we should teach them which strangers to turn to.
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