Thursday, June 12th, 2008
My sister-in-law is expecting her long-awaited first child. I don’t know what choices she will end up making, but I did my best in trying to influence her toward attachment parenting. 
Here are the books and things we gave her as soon as we found out she was expecting.
I also gave her a printed book-form version of all my parenting essays and collection of parenting Scripture verses. (See header or sidebar.)
And a pink baby outfit and a blue baby outfit.
Here are the presents my mother, grandmother, and I gave her at her baby shower the other night. I am hoping she will choose babywearing over using a stroller, so I wanted her to have a couple choices:
Zolowear Sling (Blue Paisley) (with DVD)
Ergo Baby Carrier (in Black with Camel) (with DVD)
Ergo Backpack (Diaper Bag) (Black)
Ergo Front Pack (Black)
Ergo Infant Insert (Camel)
And probably most of all, I am hoping she will choose to listen to her baby, instead of letting her baby cry it out. We gave her this brilliant DVD that helps to educate mothers about understanding their babies’ communication skills.
Dunstan Baby Language DVD
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Babies need parenting to a T
http://www.bradenton.com/278/story/613124.html
“In many cultures mothers walk around with their babies attached to them in some way. I don’t think I put my babies down until they were around six months of age. If I put them down they cried, and I could not stand to hear them cry, it broke my heart.”
Friday, February 1st, 2008
MORE THAN A PARENTING MINISTRY:
The Cultic Characteristics of Growing Families International
by Kathleen Terner and Elliot Miller
http://www.equip.org/site/c.muI1LaMNJrE/b.2721925/k.B464/DG233.htm
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” Isaiah 66:13 NIV
LIKE AS A MOTHER COMFORTETH
“Like as a mother comforteth”
O words of gentle worth!
“So will I comfort you,” declares
The Lord of all the earth.
He bends in faithful watchfulness;
He slumbers not nor sleeps;
Above His trusting child the Lord
A constant vigil keeps.
He patient is, as mothers are
Who love their children well;
Our faults and failings He forgives;
His mercies—who can tell!
“Like as a mother,” grant, O God,
This likeness e’er may be
A holy symbol to declare
The love that dwells in Thee.
