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Quote of the Month: September
"Love the children extravagantly, with all your heart!"

- Pygmy proverb

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Newest Articles
How to Intervene: The Safety of Kids is Everybody's Business by Irene van der Zande
"Personal safety for children depends largely on adults doing what they can to help. ... One day, I saw a very little girl, barely walking and clutching her doll, wandering apparently alone..."
Why African Babies Don't Cry: An African Perspective by Claire Niala
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I was born and grew up in Kenya & Cote d'Ivoire. Then from the age of fifteen I lived in the UK. However, I always knew that I wanted to raise my children (whenever I had them) at home in Kenya..."
Daditude: How the Special Love Fathers Have for Their Children Cannot (And Need Not) be Measured Maternally by Lu Hanessian
"Dads have something within them that they may not realize. An intangible force that's as powerful and as valuable as mother's intuition..."
Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks - Research
The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest has urged the FDA to ban artificial food dyes.
Down the Slide, or Up the Anger Escalator? by Inbal Kashtan
"Four-year-old Alyssa stands at the top of a slide telling the two other children in the playground to go away. The other children are not happy about the situation..."
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Global Children's Art Gallery: New Page Added

See ten wonderful new pictures on page 112, including works from China, Hungary, India, and Thailand! View over 1,000 pieces of children's art from around the world, and submit your own. Order prints, posters, greeting cards and clothing featuring your choice of picture from our online shop.

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Natural Child News: July and August 2010
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A Gift for Baby
This charming picture book celebrates the many joys of attachment parenting. Hardcover with English and Spanish text.
Doll Slings
Encourage creative play and celebrate the art of babywearing with a beautiful doll sling for your little one!
New Gift Set
Save 20% on one set of Parenting Cards, one Doll Sling, and a copy of Jan Hunt's attachment parenting children's book A Gift for Baby.
The Unschooling Unmanual now on Kindle
The eBook edition of The Unschooling Unmanual is now available for Amazon's Kindle eBook reader.
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Children's Photos Wanted for 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, with a montage of photos of babies and young children (without adults in the picture) for the background. Unposed close-ups and outdoor shots will work best. We're hoping for photos of children from many countries. We will not post any names. Please send photos for this project to .


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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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, 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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