The Natural Child Project - Celebrating attachment parenting and unschooling since 1996

Welcome to The Natural Child Project! Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

Quote of the Month: February

	"It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water." - Claude Monet
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Spring cleaning? Please send us books, CDs or DVDs that we can resell for fundraising.
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Newest Articles

The Parenting Spectrum by Teresa Brett "Our society embraces an underlying belief that parents need to control their children in order for them to learn how to be productive members of society..."
Trailer: The War on Kids - Video The 95-minute documentary "The War on Kids" shows that schools are authoritarian institutions that by their nature cannot be reformed, and that schoolchildren are subjected to invasive forms of control and are deprived of the fundamental human rights.
The Daycare Dilemma by Jan Hunt "It's always a dilemma for me to know just how to address the subject of substitute care, because there is such a gap in our culture between the ideal and the possible..."
Attachment: The Baby's Feelings For His Parents by James and Joyce Robertson "The newborn baby cannot at first make sense of the world. But as his mother handles him day after day in familiar ways, the pattern begins to emerge..."
Report on Physical Punishment in the United States: What Research Tells Us About Its Effects on Children - Research Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Ph.D., synthesized one hundred years of social science research, and found that physical punishment makes it more, not less, likely that children will be defiant and aggressive in the future...
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Global Children's Art Gallery

	View over 1,000 more works of art from around the world, and submit your own! Order prints, posters, greeting cards and clothing featuring any picture in the gallery from our online shop.
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Natural Child News - February 2010

Featured Gift Shop Items

	Special through February 28: Peruvian Babywearing Dolls Order a free doll with any order of $20 or more.
	Art Crayons Wax block and window crayons are a fun way for children to display their artwork and decorate their home.
	Parenting Cards Each of the 100 Parenting Cards features a unique reminder about parenting with love and delight.
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Website Banners - February Sale

Our site receives over 250,000 page views per month from parents and parenting professionals. Banners are 20% off through the month of February, starting at only $48, and appear on over 600 pages of our website.

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Counseling with Jan Hunt

Psychologist Jan Hunt, M.Sc. offers counseling by email or by phone on attachment parenting and unschooling. Jan is the author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart and A Gift for Baby, and the co-editor of The Unschooling Unmanual. Parenting can be easy and joyful!

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Children's Photos Wanted for New YouTube Project

Do you have a special photo of your baby or young child? We'd like to post an excerpt from the audiobook edition of The Natural Child on YouTube, and want to create a collage of photos of babies and young children for the background (close-ups and outdoor shots would work best). We will not post any names. Please send photos for this project to .

Forthcoming Book: Share Your Stories

Jan Hunt is preparing a new collection of stories on standing up for children in public places. If you have intervened successfully on behalf of a child in public, and would like to submit your story for inclusion in the book, please send it to Jan. For examples, see our intervention articles. If a story is used in the book, the writer will receive a gift copy.

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Updated February 09, 2010