kindred

i just adore this new kindred site that i have discovered. it is a great Australian based natural parenting magazine and site that contains some very informative articles from international sources. i cannot seem educate myself enough about the different methods of parenting and there are so many useful pieces on the website. 


there really is an article about anything for both parents with some difficult topics as well. and there is a new website to come soon. 

images: kindred

curiosity

you can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

~anonymous

image: vintage vice

shop {herbivore}

i have purchased clothing and accessories from herbivore for years now and even for little O. my favorite tee of theirs that is no longer in store had the tag line we put the FU in tofu. their clothes make a statement! 

i started out reading a great mag that they used to put out. they had so much great content but decided to put the focus on other things so it is no longer in production. 

but they still have some back issues for sale. the travel issue is my all time favorite and such a great resource. they also carry a range of vegan, vegetarian, raw food and animal rights books. 

images: herbivore

the parenting passageway

i came across an interesting and informative blog so i thought to share. the blog introduction sums up the feel and intent of the website so much better than i could hope to. 

A passageway, as one would guess, is a conduit to the next thing – a way that allows movement from one place, condition or stage to the other. This blog is entitled “The Parenting Passageway” as it is intended to help support and encourage parents as they journey from being a single individual and/or the duality of being a couple to being an awakened parent and unified family. The ideas here are not completely new, but hopefully will still provide you, the reader, with some “a-ha” moments of clarity to ponder in your parenting journey.

blog author Carrie writes some very enlightening articles in addition to the other great resource and books she posts about. topics include Waldorf education, home schooling, conscious parenting but also fun stuff like art and fairy tales. i will be a frequent visitor as i enjoy being continually inspired by like minded people and there is always more to learn.

image: oodeladie via flickr

self education

when i was pregnant with O my life changed. decisions that i made were no longer as simple as in the past because they concerned another. i was prepared to deal with the consequences of my choices but that wasn't enough for my little one that would enter the world. 

this is when a new type of self education began for me. i wanted to find out all my options for a myriad of things and the more i learn the more i was inspired. this has continued with thoughts of his future and what i hope he experience through his childhood. living in the present can be even harder at times now than ever. 

what i have discover is that with all the things i want for him in the end he will make his own way. so i will allow that to happen by letting him experience his childhood with as little pressure from the traditional expectations of society as possible. no that doesn't mean he is going to hide away from the rest of the word until he is 18 but i really want him to be free to play and enjoy the simplicity in childhood. 

the philosophies of Rudolph Steiner have become of great interest to me because he has developed many facets of the anthroposophical lifestyle that are rooted in both spiritual and analytical considerations. 

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe…. Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.

~ rudolph steiner

image: dazeychic