Blog Posts and Articles

The Roundup has a new add-on: holistic parenting. Even before I became a new mom, a lot of my clients who are parents of small children, were/are pregnant, or were/are seeking pregnancy asked me for resources on holistic parenting. And now that I AM a mom, people are asking me for all kinds of parenting advice.

I’m not an expert, folks! I’m learning as I go. And I wouldn’t say that I have one definitive go-to website for holistic parenting information, as I’m more of a book gal. But I try to keep my ear to the ground online and as helpful articles cross my radar, I take note. So I figured, why not share these with you? They’ll be posted at the end of each Roundup, so they’re easy to ignore if you’re not interested. 

These posts won’t be age-specific. Our Sweet Harriet graduates this week from newborn-hood to infancy (she’s almost three months!), so many of the posts will be baby-centric, but I’m gathering information on all kinds of things related to children of all ages.

I don’t want to get into the vaccine debate, so please don’t use my Facebook page or blog as a battleground for this much-disputed issue. And please don’t ask me if I’m going to vaccinate my daughter –- I won’t have this conversation on a live platform. I will provide thought-provoking articles about things that all parents should consider before vaccinating, but I’m remaining publicly neutral on this matter. Again, my vaccine-related posts are for your information only and inflammatory or confrontational comments won’t be published on my blog. Thank you for your respect around this issue.

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The Busy Trap
10 Things to Stop Tolerating
Big Soda’s Secret: How Diet Soda Makes You Fat
25 Habits of People Who are Happy, Healthy, & Successful - I’m still working on a few of these. :)

“Allow yourself to shoot for only 90 percent compliance. The other 10 percent of what you eat is up to you. If you’re doing the math, that means out of 35 meals and snacks per week, 4 are your call.” – Marcelle Pick

“There is a fourfold increased risk for dementia in diabetics.” – Dr. Mark Hyman

“Consider a few of the stomach-turning ingredients found in the typical feedlot animal diet: restaurant waste, animal byproducts, municipal garbage, bubble gum and poultry manure. When you eat factory-farmed products, you are taking in lots more crap (literally) than you bargained for.” – Dr. Frank Lipman from the article, 5 Reasons to Switch to Grass-fed Meat Right Now

“People are waking up and getting it –- that we are more than a collection of chemicals, and health is more than just good food and exercise, and that our collective pain around food and weight requires that we take a deeper dive. When did you wake up and ‘get it’?” – Marc David
 

For parents:

Why We Drug Our Children
The Dark Side of Marketing Healthy Food to Children
Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD

“For those who say Autism is incurable or genetic, they are just unaware and uninformed and may be harming families and children who need to know that autism is a sickness and injury that needs healing.” – Mary Tocco