Organically Inclined

I’ve been having a bit of a battle about my Attachment Parenting post.
To those coming into the debate fresh, let me clarify my position. I believe wholeheartedly in the following:

staying home with my children absolutely through the first year and beyond if possible (except for short outings).
co-sleeping.
breastfeeding - exclusively for six months, and at least [...]

Kiara is one - and walking! Oh my, where does the time go?

Seems like just a day ago she was this snuggly little baby and now she’s practically a full-fledged toddler!

October is Attachment Parenting month. Now, what does it mean, exactly, to attachment parent? Well, I’m sure if you ask 10 different people, you will get 10 different answers. To me, attachment parenting means, in general, to respect my child and be available - emotionally and physically - to them all (or 99 percent) of [...]

I was reading a post at Natural Fatherhood about positive discipline and permissive - or non-permissive parenting, and it got me thinking. He cites this quote: “The world is full of followers, but you’re not one of them.”- JL Glass
I started thinking about this quote in a different way.
We are pretty unconventional people. We homeschool. [...]

I’m sorry. This will sound very unfeminist of me - but as I get older I realize just how unfeminist I truly am! I just read this article on Night Nannies on The New York Times and let me say that I am appalled. Now, not only are more and more children being shunted out the [...]

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving
the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.” -
Marianne Williamson

By Michelle Kennedy Hogan
michelle [at] organicallyinclined.org
When I was 14, I was never having children. Not one. And I wasn’t going to get married either. I was going to be a politician. I was going to be the President. In my head, being a mother and being the President were mutually exclusive. Not being a woman [...]

Watching my children go through the paces of trying to figure out who they “are” and what they are going to “be” in life has given me a lot to think about recently.
Of course, watching my children grow up, I have always harbored some secret desire that they were geniuses. That perhaps they would go [...]

Sara Wickham wrote this for Midwifery Today and I thought I would share it with you.
“This action list of small things all midwives can do to change societal attitudes toward birth and to promote midwifery and the midwifery model was derived from some research I carried out a few years ago. All the suggestions are [...]

By Michelle Kennedy
There is nothing I hate worse than to see a mom or dad lugging their baby around in the car seat in a store. I can’t believe a mother would rather lug 12 pounds of baby plus 15 pounds of car seat in an uncomfortable position, like a bucket of water down to [...]