Posts by Curious

Free online Access to Breastfeeding Medicine, Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. The new publisher, Mary Ann Liebert, is devoted to bringing new thinking to mainstream medicine and publishes a number of innovative medical...

Have to agree with recommendations for Bates and Ames Loving and Defiant. That says it all! I was wondering about a lot of little things Dd started coming up with over the past few months as 6 approaches. It was all there - so this is...

Have to agree with recommendations for Bates and Ames Loving and Defiant. That says it all! I was wondering about a lot of little things Dd started coming up with over the past few months as 6 approaches. It was all there - so this is...

This is a hard transition. Dd is almost 6 and naps started getting unpredictable somewhere between 2 and 3. But we do Quiet Time every day faithfully after lunch. It makes the difference between later craziness and not. Occastionally she...

I'm making some Waldorfy decorations with sticks from the yard. They have been whittled and sanded and I now want to polish them with beeswax and mineral oil. I hear that this combination makes a nice polish. Does anyone have a recipe...

If you feel strongly it's right for you, you might want to consider what my sister did for her son: they chose an unusual first name and then a common middle name, so that if he really hated standing out, he had something mundane to turn...

One day a few years ago I couldn't stand the clutter anymore. We had a nice toy shelf for Dd but it was stuffed. And everything on it seemed to be something she used often. One night I dove in and put 3/4 of the stuff into the closet....

A friend of a friend swore by mannatech, extolling it's virtues to everyone she knew - as she died of the metastatic cancer it was supposed to have eliminated.

I used enterolab and went off gluten. I took the test because a doctor recommended it and I had a sense she was right that gluten was bad for me. I'm not sure things would be any different if I'd just gone off without the test, since the...

Homeschool holds an image, I find, of mother and child huddled at kitchen table grunting over a workbook, with no social contacts. When I explain to inquirers that homeschool means simply, based out of the home, their image...