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A Family that Plays Together Stays Together!

October 19, 2011

Last year, I gave my sweet husband the colossal task of finding a birthday present for me that a) wasn’t materialistic and b) showed me that

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Coming Out To Play

October 4, 2011

“I bless you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to the little children.” Jesus A newspaper reporter once wrote that, “Fred Donaldson never has a hard day at work. All he does is play around.” The reporter expresses a common misunderstanding of [...]

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Infant Massage: An encounter of love that goes beyond the borders of the body

June 17, 2010

The following is a guest post courtesy of Infant Massage USA for API’s Use Nurturing Touch blog carnival. A touch, a look, a gesture… are encounters of love where the magic of innocence and candor unite. Mothers, fathers and babies are immersed in an atmosphere of tenderness and simplicity, in which voices, whispers, songs, looks [...]

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The Importance of Infant Massage

June 1, 2010

This post is part of the 2010 API Principles of Parenting blog carnival, a series of monthly parenting blog carnivals, hosted by API Speaks. The mothers of India have given the world one of the most important parenting tools known to humanity: infant massage. It is probably hard to imagine raising a baby without this [...]

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Tough Love? No Way, Baby

December 17, 2009

This guest post is in response to a recent Time magazine article. For more information on the article and API’s response, please visit the API Advocates page. “We’re glad to see you . . . We’re sorry you had to come.” So says Time Magazine to our newborns, who are biologically wired to seek out [...]

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Mothering Autism

November 10, 2009

When our oldest, Emily, was just shy of 3, we learned that she had Autism. It was such a stressful time in our little family’s life. Our baby, Alex was almost a year old and was crying all of the time for unknown reasons to us then and my husband’s job was rocky and unpredictable, [...]

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Attachment Parenting and Autism

October 14, 2009

The following post, Attachment Parenting and Autism, has been submitted by Amy as part of the AP Month 2009 blog carnival. If you are interested in participating in the carnival, view the AP Month 2009 blog carnival information post. If you’re like Amy and don’t have your own blog, you can email your submission to [...]

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International Babywearing Week 2009

September 24, 2009

This week is International Babywearing Week 2009. My posts over the next week will, no doubt, be mostly related to babywearing, it’s benefits for both baby and wearer, and how to do it. What is babywearing? From http://babywearinginternational.org: Babywearing simply means holding or carrying a baby or young child using a baby carrier. Holding babies [...]

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