FAMILIES NATURALLY
Helping families become green, balanced, and value centered
LINKS
The Aware Parenting Institute
Transforming families around the world
Solutions in Parenting
Solutions for Today's Families
Manger Bio/Eating Organic
Vivre tout bio et donner un autre sens à sa vie !
Living completely organic and giving another sense to your life !
BOOKS
The Aware Baby by Aletha Solter
The Aware Baby marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of babies' needs from conception to 2½ years of age. This revised edition includes new research and insights from the author's extensive experience as a consultant and international workshop leader. The author discusses the attachment needs of infants, which are best met by close physical contact, breast-feeding, and prompt responsiveness to crying. At the core of her philosophy is the concept of crying as tension release, with the emphasis that babies should always be held when they cry.
Helping Young Children Flourish by Aletha Solter
This book is a sequel to The Aware Baby, and focuses on children from two to eight years of age. --it provides much useful advice for coping with day-to-day problems, as well as guidelines for helping children reach their highest potential. You will learn how to help your children grow up to be compassionate, competent, nonviolent, and drug free while maintaining a relationship of mutual respect with them.
Tears and Tantrums by Aletha Solter
Tears and Tantrums describes a new way of understanding the purpose of crying during infancy and childhood. This revolutionary book will help you improve your relationship with children, whether you are a parent, care giver, teacher, or health professional. You will gain a better understanding of why babies and children cry, and you will learn how best to respond.
Raising Drug-Free Kids by Aletha Solter
"Raising Drug-Free Kids: 100 Tips for Parents is from attachment-parenting-oriented developmental psychologist and Mothering contributor Aletha Solter. This is not a guidebook for helping kids resist peer pressure, but rather a plan for bringing up emotionally healthy children from the start. Solter's straightforward, no-nonsense advice includes: Let your children express their feelings, don't judge them, and teach them to manage stress."
Mothering magazine
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting by Alice Miller and Andrew Jenkins
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child by Alice Miller, Lloyd deMause, Hildegarde Hannum, and Hunter Hannum
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The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self by Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
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Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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