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Mothering has teamed up with MommyChats to provide online chat with a variety of natural family experts on issues important to your family!
Before participating in a chat, please read the Chat Instructions.
Click on a past chat for transcripts, or click on the Upcoming Chats link to see our chat schedule and join in the discussion!
Past Chats
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
How to deal with illnesses, preventing winter colds and flus, avoiding stress, keeping the holidays mellow, and ways to avoid the onslaught of candy and sugar this time of year
Cynthia Good Mojab
Coping with the challenges of mothering a child born with a congenital disorder or experiencing chronic health issues.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Keeping kids healthy through the school year.
Cynthia Good Mojab
Recovering from a difficult or traumatic birth experience.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Back to school issues: pressure to vaccinate, exposure to illnesses, plans for the academic year.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Learning Styles and Children's Development.
Elizabeth Pantley
Chat topic: The No-Cry Sleep Solution.
Cynthia Good Mojab
Grieving perinatal losses, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, and newborn death.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Holistic Pediatrics for Attention, ADD, and Behavior Problems in Children.
Rachel Gathercole
Homeschooling
Amy Lansky
Amy talks about her journey to try and help her three-year-old autistic son Max, finding the answer in homeopathy. As Max gradually made a complete recovery, she began to study this alternative therapy and eventually became a practitioner herself. Her best-selling Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy describes the history, philosophy, and science of homeopathic medicine, and includes the story of her son's cure along with dozens of first-person testimonials of cures for a variety of physical, mental, and emotional conditions.
Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM.
Grieving breastfeeding losses, including the loss of expected breastfeeding experiences, the loss of direct breastfeeding (exclusive pumping), and the complete loss of breastfeeding.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Chat topic: Allergies, Eczema, and Asthma.
Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM
Depression and its symptoms and myths that can keep mothers from getting the help they need.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Vaccinations: The Controversies and Dilemmas
Amy Rothenberg ND
Get a natural medicine perspective on your health related questions about mother & child. Amy Rothenberg, ND, has had a family practice in naturopathic medicine for the last 20 years. She graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and is a popular speaker and writer on subjects of natural medicine for both professional and lay audiences. She teaches a program in classical homeopathy through the New England School of Homeopathy and is a frequent contributor to Homeopathy Today. Her husband and partner in practice, Paul Herscu ND is the author of the best selling Homeopathic Treatment of Children, which describes some of the more common constitutional types in pediatric practice and which is based on their years working together treating children. You can read more about her work at www.nesh.com.
Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Chat: "Immune Strengthening for Kids with Recurring Winter Illnesses." Dr. Neustaedter has practiced holistic medicine for more than thirty years in the San Francisco Bay area, specializing in child health care. He is a licensed acupuncturist and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, as well as education director of the Holistic Pediatric Association, author of Child Health Guide and The Vaccine Guide, and father of five children. Visit his website, www.cure-guide.com to register for a free newsletter with pediatric updates.
Cathe Olson
Author of the Mothering articles "Wellness Model in Our Schools" and "Slow Food in Schools," Cathe is a wife and mother, as well as a writer and natural foods cook. She is the author of Simply Natural Baby Food and The Vegetarian Mothera^?(TM)s Cookbook. Cathe has had several articles published in Mothering as well as other magazines and local publications. Cathe is passionate about helping parents make healthy food choices for themselves and their families and serves as MotheringDotCommune's Nutrition and Good Eating Moderator. She is a frequent speaker at parenting classes, moms clubs, natural foods stores, libraries, and wellness centers. here to go to the chat on Wednesday, March 8th, 1 p.m. Eastern.
Hathor The Cowgoddess
Hathor the Cowgoddess lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling. The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.
Marilyn Milos, RN
Founder and director of the National Organization of
Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital Integrity. Marilyn received the California Nurses Association's award and the Nurse Week Nursing Excellence Award 2001 for Patient Advocacy.
Larry Cohen
Lawrence J. Cohen,
Ph.D., is the author of Playful Parenting and a licensed psychologist specializing in children's play and play therapy. He is also the co-author of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Friendship, Popularity and Social Cruelty in the Lives of Boys and Girls, and Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Children Solve Social Problems. His treatment innovations have included the first groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors of sexual abuse.
Cathe Olson
Author of the Mothering articles "Wellness Model in Our Schools" and "Slow Food in Schools," Cathe is a wife and mother, as well as a writer and natural foods cook. She is the author of Simply Natural Baby Food and The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook. Cathe has had several articles published in Mothering as well as other magazines and local publications. Cathe is passionate about helping parents make healthy food choices for themselves and their families and serves as MotheringDotCommune's Nutrition and Good Eating Moderator. She is a frequent speaker at parenting classes, moms clubs, natural foods stores, libraries, and wellness centers. here to go to the chat on Wednesday, March 8th, 1 PM Eastern.
Hathor The Cowgoddess
Hathor the Cowgoddess lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling. The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.
Marilyn Milos, RN
Founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital Integrity. Marilyn received the California Nurses Association's award
and the Nurse Week Nursing Excellence Award 2001 for Patient Advocacy.
Larry Cohen
Lawrence J. Cohen,
Ph.D., is the author of Playful Parenting and a licensed psychologist specializing in children's play and play therapy. He is also the co-author of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Friendship, Popularity and Social Cruelty in the Lives of Boys and Girls, and Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Children Solve Social Problems. His treatment innovations have included the first groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors of sexual abuse.
Hathor The Cowgoddess
Hathor the Cowgoddess lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling.
Hathor is the completely true product of the imagination of Heather Cushman-Dowdee, an outraged (because she might look distracted but she is paying attention! ) mama who has done almost all of the above (that part is autobiography)... except for the part that she totally makes up (those parts are wishful thinking). The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.
Judith Lothian and Charlotte DeVries
Judith and Charlotte are the authors of The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence and maintain a blog about normal birth at birthwithconfidence.blogs.lamaze.org. The topic of their chat is "Building Confidence and Erasing Fear in Childbirth".
Judith Lothian is a nurse and childbirth educator with more than 30 years of experience. She is an associate professor at Seton Hall University College of Nursing and is a member of Lamaze International Board of Directors. Dr. Lothian is a nationally recognized speaker on birth and breastfeeding, a columnist for The Journal of Perinatal Education, a mother of five and grandmother of six.
Charlotte DeVries is a journalist, past president of Lamaze International's Board of Directors, and a current Board Advisor. She works alongside her husband, a sociologist, on childbirth and midwifery research and education. She also writes a newspaper column on life as a working mother of three.
Dr. Randall Neustaedter has practiced holistic medicine for more than thirty years in the San Fransisco Bay area, specializing in child health care. He is a licensed acupuncturist and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, as well as education director of the Holistic Pediatric Association www.hpakids.org, author of Child Health Guide and The Vaccine Guide, and father of five children. Dr. Neustaedter's chat is on prevention and treatment of influenza. Visit his website, www.cure-guide.com to register for a free newsletter with pediatric updates.
Miriam is the author of "The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother" and speaks publicly about motherhood, motherjudgment, and motherwork. With Andrea Buchanan, she's the cofounder of MotherTalk forums held around the country to get moms together and get us talking about social change. She is the mom of second grade Samira and a new daughter expected in mid-December. Her work has been featured on TV, radio, internet, and print media, iincluding CNN, NPR, www.PlaygroundRevolution.com, and at her Motherhoood Blog.
Sarojni Mehta-Lissak
Sarojni Mehta-Lissak is a freelance writer, poet and fiction writer from Long Beach, California, where she lives with her husband and ever-changing daughter. She frequently writes on motherhood, adoption, parenting, beauty, and natural living topics and derives great satisfaction from exploring life through her craft. Her work has appeared in Wild Violet, Midwifery Today, FamilyTravelFun.com, Moondance.org, Awakened Woman, Mother Verse and Holt International Magazine, as well as at her website sarojnimehta-lissak.com and most recently on Mothering.com with her article "10 Way to Soothe Your Home: A Guide To Creating a Peaceful Environment". Sarojni will be chatting with us on how to create a peaceful and soothing home for ourselves as parents and for our families.
Sarah Buckley
Trained GP (family MD), with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning, and a writer on pregnancy, birth and parenting. Topics include ecstatic birth; epidurals and other drugs in labour, ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis; third stage of labour and lotus birth; extended breastfeeding; co-sleeping; elimination communication (raising babies without diapers/nappies); healing power of birth; yoga and motherhood; fertility awareness and gentle discipline.
David Albert
David is a homeschooling dad, writer, storyteller, and author of three books about homeschooling: Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow. Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love (Common Courage Press, in Press); Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery (Common Courage Press, 2003); and And the Skylark Sings with Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community Based-Education (New Society Publishers, 1999); editor of a book about his Indian parents The Color of Freedom (Common Courage Press, 2005); as well as two books about the uses of storytelling, The Healing Heart~Families and The Healing Heart~Communities (New Society Publishers, 2003). He writes a regular column "My Word!" for Home Education Magazine, and a second column "What Really Matters" with Joyce Reed, for The Link. His work has appeared in scores of magazines and journals worldwide, ranging from Life Learning Magazine to the Journal of the American Philosophical Society. As founder of New Society Publishers, he was both editor and publisher of John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and more than a 100 other titles. He was also a founding member of Co-op America and the National Association of Socially Responsible Businesses.
David lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and partner Ellen and younger daughter Meera (age 15). His older daughter Aliyah (18) is an undergraduate at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, majoring in music composition. He holds degrees from Williams College, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago, but says the best education he ever received he gets from his kids. When he is not learning with and from children, writing, making music, or raising funds for community development projects in south India, he serves as Senior Planning and Policy Analyst for the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. David is also an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and moderator of the Quaker Homeschooling Circle.
Visit his website at www.skylarksings.com or write him at david@skylarksings.com.
Sally Blakemore and Candace Walsh
Mothering staffers, Candace and Sally, recently attended the Equality Now's Fourth Annual Meeting of the Fund for Grassroots Activism to End Female Genital Mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya. Come chat with Sally and Candace to learn more about this vital issue that affects African mothers and daughters daily and for a lifetime and to find out what you can do to help.
Cynthia Lair
Cynthia Lair graduated as a Certified Health and Nutrition Counselor from the Health and Nutrition Program (NYC) in 1987. A member of the Nutrition faculty at Bastyr University , School of Natural Medicine , since 1994, she has written articles for many publications, including Mothering Magazine. She has lectured and taught cooking classes for parenting organizations, medical practitioners, special interest groups throughout the Pacific NW and Canada . The revised edition of her popular cookbook, Feeding the Whole Family was released in January 1998 and has sold over 25,000 copies. Her latest book is Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players and Parents was released in 2002. Her website is www.feedingfamily.com.
Cheryl Tallman of Fresh Baby is the inspiration of two sisters, Joan Ahlers and Cheryl Tallman, who, in raising their children, could not identify all-natural alternatives for healthy and hassle-free feeding. That brought them to establish Fresh Baby. Cheryl and Joan volunteer their time speaking to groups of new parents on subjects such as introducing solid foods, making baby food, and raising a healthy eater.
Hathor The Cow Goddess
Hathor the Cowgoddess lives in the middle of urban sprawl with her dearest super-husband and three wee and wise kids. She has had an unassisted birth in the middle of her 700 square foot apartment, she breastfeeds on demand and in public, she shares sleep, maintains constant contact and unschools. Not only does she do all of this, she does it with grand style and verve. With extravagant and outrageous behavior. And with her trusty sidekick baby in a sling.
Hathor is the completely true product of the imagination of Heather Cushman-Dowdee, an outraged (because she might look distracted but she is paying attention! ) mama who has done almost all of the above (that part is autobiography)... except for the part that she totally makes up (those parts are wishful thinking). The raucous exploits of Hathor and her family are produced in comic form on the web and printed in many, many zines and magazines and books, too.
Sherri Tenpenny
Dr. Tenpenny is a respected expert in the area of alternative medicine. Locally she has lectured at both Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve Medical School on topics related to alternative health. Nationally, she is a regular guest on many different ratio talk shows, and has published articles in magazines, newspapers and internet sites, including the extremely popular www.mercola.com. As a member of the prestigious National Speaker's Association, Dr. Tenpenny is an outspoken advocate for free choice in healthcare, including the right to refuse vaccination. As an internationally known speaker, she is highly sought after for her ability to present scientifically sound information regarding vaccination hazard, warnings that are rarely portrayed by conventional medicine. Most importantly, she offers hope through her unique treatments offered at OsteoMed II for those who have been vaccine-injured.
Sara Bingham
Sara Bingham completed a BA in Linguistics and a BA in Psychology as well as an honours post-graduate diploma as a Communicative Disorders Assistant. She is mom of two signing wee ones: Joshua, age 5 years, and Sabrina, age 2 years. She currently teaches at Durham College within the Communicative Disorders Assistant program and has been studying American Sign Language (ASL) since 1991 with
the Canadian Hearing Society and at the Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf.
Sara established "Wee Hands", classes that teach parents how to use American Sign Language with their babies. The classes have a strong focus on language development and provide parents with activities that help them teach their babies ASL vocabulary and include language development strategies.
Bee Lavender
Bee Lavender is a writer, editor, publisher, and activist. After living in the Pacific Northwest for thirty-three years she moved to England, where her office is a canal boat mooored on the River Cam. Her books include the anthologies Breeder and Mamaphonic. Her most recent book is a memoir about danger titled Lessons in Taxidermy. Bee is the publisher of the online edition of Hip Mama and created and publishes Girl-Mom, an advocacy website for teen parents, and Yo Mama Says, a news and commentary website for activists.
Kelly Bonyata
Kelly is an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), and a member of the International Lactation Consultant Association and the Florida Lactation Consultant Association. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Mercer University, with majors in mathematics and physics, and previously worked in the field of environmental assessment and remediation. Kelly is the owner and originator of kellymom.com, an internationally recognized website providing breastfeeding and parenting information to professionals and parents. She stays up-to-date with the latest research on lactation, infant nutrition and infant development so that she can provide parents and professionals with the most current information available.
Jack Newman
Dr. Jack Newman, physician and pediatrician, founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first Baby Friendly Hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada. Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding, and in 2000 published a help guide for professionals and mothers on breastfeeding, called, Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding in Canada (revised edition, January 2003), and The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers in the US. In 2005, he and others brought out a DVD for breastfeeding called Dr. Jack Newman's Visual Guide to Breastfeeding.
Click here to go to the chat on Friday, October 7th at 1 PM EST.
Linda Folden Palmer
Author and speaker specializing in nutrition of pregnancy, lactation, and childhood, and in infant health and bonding. She is dedicated to raising awareness about how powerfully early parenting and healthcare choices can influence a child's mental and physical outcomes. Dr. Palmer is the author of Baby Matters, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby.
Michael Franti.
Visionary musician, filmmaker and human rights worker, Michael Franti brings you the 7th Annual 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival (PTTP)
Katie Field
Katie is a Work-At-Home-Mom to Alexander 3.5 Dominic 15 months, and also a passionate
babywearing advocate. She feels babywearing helps the bonding process as well as a help in adjusting to a new life for mom, dad, and baby. She is also the owner of Little Ants Inc., a web-based business selling diapers, wooden toys, baby carriers and other children's products.
Sarah Buckley
Trained GP (family MD), with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family
planning, and a writer on pregnancy, birth and parenting.
Topics include ecstatic birth; epidurals and other drugs in labour, ultrasound and prenatal
diagnosis; third stage of labour and lotus birth; extended
breastfeeding; co-sleeping; elimination communication (raising babies
without diapers/nappies); healing power of birth; yoga and motherhood;
fertility awareness and gentle discipline.
Elizabeth Pantley
Author of "The No-Cry
SleepSolution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night"
and "The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers".
Katie
Allison Granju
Author of "AttachmentParenting". Katie's topics
of passion are: attachment parentingschool-age children; parenting
teenagers; feminism and motherhood; howto make it as a freelance
writer.
Peggy
O'Mara
Editor and Publisher of Mothering Magazine and
Mothering.com.
David
Kirby
David Kirby, author of
"Evidence
of Harm". The book was a catalytic element in bringing the autism
/thimerosal connection to the forefront.Click here for a recent Mothering activism
alert on "Evidence of Harm."
Sarah Bridges
Mother, author, and autism activist, Sarah's son is one of only
1,800 children that the government has officially acknowledged in Vaccine
Court as being vaccine injured. Thus, the government will pay for his
lifetime care, which is conservatively estimated at a of cost nine
million dollars. Click here to read
Sarah's Washington Post article "A Child's Severe Reaction to a Vaccine
Alters Life" and here for
Mothering's extensive cache of information on thimerosal and autism, and
to read "Deadly Immunity".
Christine Gross-Loh
Author of Mothering articles "Hold Me Close", "Babywearing Tips", and "Don't Trash Our Bodies! Researching Breastmilk Toxins" Christine Gross-Loh completed her doctorate in East Asian history at Harvard University. Her chat topic: "Swimming Upstream in a Mainstream World" - helping moms follow their mothering instincts in a society which doesn't support AP values.
Joe Kelly
President of
Dads
and Daughters, is a national advocacy, nonprofit organization that inspires fathers to
actively and deeply engage in the lives oftheir daughters and galvanizes
fathers and others to transform the pervasive cultural messages that
devalue girls and women.
Peggy O'Mara
,
Editor and Publisher of Mothering Magazine and Mothering.com.
A
casual, community chat about pregnancy, birth,family concerns, activism
ideas, and other topics of Mothering interest!
Author of PlayfulParenting Dr. Cohen is a
licensed psychologist specializing inchildren's play and play therapy.
and the co-author ofBest Friends, Worst Enemies:
Friendship, Popularity and Social Cruelty in the Lives of Boys and
Girls, and Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Children Solve
Social Problems.His treatment innovations have included the first
groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse
survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors
of sexual abuse.
Paul Fleiss,
MD.
Trained
as a pharmacist, an osteopathic physician, and a medical doctor, Fleiss
is a well-respected pediatrician who has been in practice for more than
35 years. He is the author of Sweet Dreams: A Pediatrician's Secrets
for Baby's Good Night's Sleep and What Your Doctor May Not Tell
You about Circumcision.
Marilyn Milos, RN
Founder and director of the National Organization of
Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and coordinator of the
International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital
Integrity. Marilyn received the California Nurses Association's award
and the Nurse Week Nursing Excellence Award 2001 for Patient Advocacy.
Peggy O'Mara
, Editor
and Publisher of Mothering Magazine and Mothering.com.
A casual,
community chat about pregnancy, birth,family concerns, activism ideas,
and other topics of Mothering interest!
Author of the Mothering article "Enjoying My Daughter
With Down Syndrome". Lizzie is an activist, artist, and
mother to Nasrine who has Down Syndrome. She's a hip mom who uses
holistic therapies such as Tui Na, craniosacraltherapy, yoga, diet and
supplements to help her daughter reach her fullest potential. Lizzie
discusses her experience with these therapies and how they have helped
and continue to help Nasrine.
Gary Ruskin
Executive
Director of CommercialAlert, a
nonprofit organization that protects children and communities from
commercialism with a mission to keep the
commercial culture within its proper sphere and prevent it from
exploiting children or subverting the higher values of family,
community, environmental integrity and democracy. Gary founded Commercial
Alert in 1998 with Ralph Nader.
Author of Does Coke Money Corrupt
Kids' Dentistry?
Joshua Golin, MA, is the action coordinator
for the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and is a graduate
student in child development and urban and environmental policy at Tufts
University. Josh discusses the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's
acceptance of financial support fromCoca-Cola.
Author of Thirst For Profit, Michele is a public health lawyer and founder and
director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, a nonprofit
organization based in Oakland, California, that educates about the
politics of food. Michele discusses the topic of her article - how the
marketing of Coke and Pepsi in schools hurts kids andwhat you can do
about it.
BarbBerst AdamsAuthor of Ode to the One Room School House, Barb Berst Adams is a freelance writer and author of Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth. In her Mothering article "Ode to the One Room Schoolhouse" Barb examines multi-age classroom learning, showing that children can thrive in the intellectual and social diversity that such a classroom presents. Barb talks about the advantages and challenges of the "one room schoolhouse".
Diane Wood
Executive Director of New American Dream, Diane discusses Children and Commercialism: What parents can do in
their homes to have a healthy relationship withthe commercial world. New American Dream is
an organization committed to helping Americans consume responsibly to
protect the environment,enhance quality of life, and promote social
justice.
Owner of Little Turtle
Knits, Theresa, a Work At Home Mom, is an avid cloth
diaperer and has been making and selling soakers for over five years. She
carries her enthusiasm for cloth diapering and knitting through her
business and into the online communities she actively participates in as
well as to those around her, advocating and educating moms and
moms-to-be about the fun and ease of cloth diapering and soakers.
Nancy Cowles
Executive Director, Kids In Danger, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting
children by improving children's product safety. KID's goal is to create
a secure environment for children by ensuring that safer products are
manufactured, improving recall effectiveness,and encouraging parents and
caregivers to remove dangerous or recalled products from homes and
childcare centers.
Liz Perle
Editor-In-Chief, Common Sense Media, a national organzation formed by concerned parents
whobelieve that by sharing good common sense ideas we can create
healthy media diets for our kids and a powerful voice that speaks up
for responsible entertainment. A twenty year publishing veteran, Liz
is responsible for the overall editorial leadership of Common Sense
Media.
Cynthia Lair
Author, Feeding The WholeFamily, Cynthia Lair is a Certified Health and Nutrition Counselor from
and a member of the Nutrition faculty at Bastyr University, School of Natural Medicine
Lauren Feder, MD
Dr. Feder is a
specialist in homeopathy for children, adults and pregnancy. She is the
author of "Your Child Has The Flu: What's A Mother To Do?" in the Jan/Feb
2005 issue of
Annie
Feighery
Annie Feighery is an
anthropologist, writer and mother of two. She is the author of "Off
To Work We Go - Baby In Tow!" from the JanFeb 2005 issue of
A childbirth educator and birth assistant (doula) Karen
has been actively assisting families as they embark on the parenting
journey for over ten years. She is actively involved in
assembling research on the immense benefits-physical, mental, and
spiritual-of doulas, and the positive healing energy of birth and
author of three books on pregnancy, birth, and parenting, including A Holistic Guide to
Embracing Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood: Wisdom and Advice from
a Doula.
Rob
Williams
Rob is board president of the Action Coalition for Media
Education, an international organization devoted to critical
media-literacyeducation, independent media production, and grass roots
mediareform. He is also the author of "The Making of A Media-Literate
Mind" in the November/December 2004 issue ofMothering.
Peggy O'Mara
Publisher and Editor of
Mary Romaniec
Parent counselor on practical steps parents can take to aid in their
children's improvement and recovery from autism and author of
"Daniel's Success Story" in the September/October 2004 issue of
Nathanael
Schildbach
Homeschooling father and author of "A Homeschool
Primer" in the September/October 2004 issue of
Barbara Loe Fisher
President of the National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC) and author of "In The Wake of Vaccines"in the
September/October 2004 issue of
Peggy O'Mara
Publisher and Editor of
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