PARENTING FREEDOM

attachment parenting, homeschooling, gentle discipline
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  • .: Status Updates :.

    Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 7:18 pm

    I bought two boxes of size 6 Huggies on clearance today, saving me $54.22 off the regular price!!! That doesn’t happen every day! The diaper company changed the packaging, and the grocery store wanted to get rid of the old style! I wish I could have bought more, but there were only two boxes left.

  • .: Quotes :.

    "Speaking the Truth in times of
    universal deceit is a revolutionary act."
    George Orwell
  • “Middle-class children are struggling to learn how to talk because working parents are unable to offer them the quality time.”

    | December 31, 2009

    Middle-class parents too busy to teach children how to talk, says ‘communication champion’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239737/Middle-class-parents-busy-teach-children-talk-says-communication-champion.html#ixzz0bJVbkxF3

    Impressive Birthing

    | December 31, 2009

    Christmas must go on! Wonder mother pops out to give birth and serves up turkey two hours later
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239595/Christmas-Wonder-mother-pops-birth-serves-turkey-hours-later.html#ixzz0bJV00BN3

    “‘I had prepared most of the dinner before I went into labour so everything was in the oven and ready to go before I left.’”

    “‘Everything went really well, Lexi was born and I was back to serve the meal an hour later. It was quite surreal.’”

    Attachment Parenting View from 1951 (Original Father of the Bride 2)

    | December 31, 2009

    I am sure you have watched Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride 2. Well, they are based on movies from the early fifties. The original sequel was called Father’s Little Dividend and it was filmed in 1951. I found the following section very interesting in regard to attachment parenting. The father, Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy), and his daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) were saying that everyone should stop interfering in her pregnancy. She went on to explain her doctor’s radical views which certainly shocked her father.

    Kay: “I guess they just don’t understand the new way of looking at things. As Dr. Nordell says, birth is a perfectly natural thing, a glorious thing, and wants you to be conscious every minute so you they don’t miss a second of it. He believes a woman should be aware of the wonderful thing that is happening to her. And another thing, he doesn’t believe that a woman should be separated from her baby for one second after it’s born. You should carry it with you, right back to your room, and keep it there with you, sleeping right there with you in your hospital bed.”

    Stanley Banks: “That is a little new isn’t it.”

    Kay: “Oh, Pop, that’s not new! Primitive woman has always done it. Dr. Nordell was in the Pacific and he said the women there, why, they were never separated from their babies. They kept them slung on their backs for the first two years of their lives. He said it was wonderful for the baby. He said if he had his way, all of his mothers would do that. You would carry them on your back while you were doing housework and when it got hungry, you would swing it around and feed it, and swing it back again. He says it gives the baby a wonderful feeling of security.”

    Father’s Little Dividend 5/12 (1951) (Clip beginning at 3:40)

    Life is too short. Homeschool.

    | December 31, 2009

    Minor Incidents

    | December 31, 2009

    Quoting the boy, in the movie, About A Boy, “There were people out there who had a good time in life. I was beginning to realize, I wasn’t one of them. I just didn’t fit. I didn’t fit at my old school. I definitely didn’t fit at my new one. I heard that some kids got taught by their parents at home. But Mom couldn’t do that unless I paid her to teach me, because it was just her and me and she had to work… So basically, I had to go to school…”

    Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident

    A Minor Incident

    There’s nothing I could say
    To make you try to feel ok
    And nothing you could do
    To stop me feeling the way I do
    And if the chance should happen
    That I never see you again
    Just remember that I’ll always love you

    I’d be a better person
    On the other side I’m sure
    You’d find a way to help yourself
    And find another door
    To shrug off minor incidents
    And make us both feel proud
    I just wish I could be there
    To see you through

    You always were the one
    To make us stand out in a crowd
    Though every once upon a while
    Your head was in the cloud
    There’s nothing you could never do
    To ever let me down
    And remember that I’ll always love you

    Mother and Baby Second Chance at Life

    | December 30, 2009

    Mom, Baby Revived After Dying During Birth
    http://www.wsbtv.com/family/22084676/detail.html

    Thankful for Take-out

    | December 28, 2009

    Derek makes fun of me for something that is frequently in the sitcom, “The Middle”, and also in the movie, “The Blind Side.” It goes along the lines, “Children, thank your mother for going to town to bring home supper for you.” Well, I tell YOU, I am thankful I don’t have to cook all the time and can bring home pizza or a bag of burgers. It’s a luxury for which I am truly grateful. Home cooked meals are sometimes a complete waste of time and energy. So there. ;-)

    There! 161 New Pictures Posted Since Christmas!!

    | December 28, 2009

    And about 34 posts!! If you can only see some of the photos it is because you aren’t registered. Almost all of the pictures with my children facing the camera are not public. When I changed my website last month, the usernames were accidentally deleted. If you want to read my private posts, please send me your original username, and I will give you a temporary password that you can change. If you were never registered, and would like to be, please send me information about yourself and your family. :-)

    Anyway, I am now up to date with my pictures. Yay!

    Nana made B11 a Sackboy for Christmas!

    | December 28, 2009

    On the gift tag, she wrote that it was his “Christmas Sweater“. You know, like in the Glenn Beck’s child storybook? Here is Sackboy sitting in front of a picture I enlarged for over B11′s desk.

     

    If you want your own Sackboy, you could pay Nana $1000 or try to make one with this pattern:
    http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00686/SKM49_2__proj_sackb_686954a.pdf

    Snow in the Yard Mid-December

    | December 28, 2009

    Decorating for Christmas 2009

    | December 28, 2009


    C8 and L5 decorating the little ceramic tree from Grammy G.


    The Fisher-Price Nativity Scene


    Our Teddy Bear Christmas Tree


    This year, I surprised the children with their own trees for their rooms.
    The pink is for C8 of course.


    B11 and L5 have the blue one in their room.
    The little trees add a new tradition.

    Pippin and Gem

    | December 28, 2009

    Early one morning, I woke to find our cat watching the moon on the river. This picture does not do it justice because the flash shows the inside which was dark, but the outside was truly breathtaking. No wonder Pippin loved staring at it.


    (I took several pics and combined two to get the best idea.)
    Pippin (will be 4 in March)


    Gem (will be 11 in February)

    Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

    | December 28, 2009

    I love when a movie has a positive pro-life message. I captured this screenshot of the three baby dinosaurs before they were born.

    Autumn in Atlantic Canada

    | December 27, 2009

    More September Pictures Set 2

    | December 26, 2009