This essay, by John Taylor Gatto, has inspired me to no end. I hope it will inspire you too!
The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher
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Just stop. I know, I know but it’s so tempting…even I am tempted occasionally to buy complete crap: like funky little plastic cups for the 4th of July, or cute little porcelain baby-faced statues, or another plate, or another bowl, or another pan.
Now, I’m not talking about the stuff you need. I bought some [...]
Make your own pizza and make friends!
We are a pizza-eating family. We love it. If you can put it on a pizza – we will…in fact, we will put a lot of things on a pizza that some people have never heard of – like BBQ chicken and pork!
Pizza is the ultimate fast food in [...]
Get the first two chapters of Michelle’s new book, A Fine Mess: Living Simply With Children, for free! Michelle is the homeschooling mother of (almost ) 7 children and has lots of humor, tips and hints for living with so many for much less. Want to try it out for nothing? Just email Michelle and [...]
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I loved this article from Zen Habits author Leo Babauta. He writes about being kind, something I have worked at being for a long time. Being purposely kind, I must admit, has been hard for me in the past. I did not grow up or live around people who were kind (except for my mother). [...]
Recently, a fairly well-known author, Judith Warner, wrote on her New York Times blog commending Hanna Rosin for speaking out about how much, according to them, breast pumps suck (pun intended).
Warner’s article: http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/why-i-dumped-the-pump/ and Rosin’s: The Case Against Breastfeeding published in The Atlantic (a publication I used to like a lot).
Rosin’s article is a bit [...]
Continue reading about Breastfeeding, Pumping, the Mommy Wars continue…
The Winners of the Sinupret for Kids Giveaway are:
mamatace; Toni;Veggiemomma; Nicole; and Angie Cox
Each of these winners will receive an email from me confirming their email address and asking for their mailing address. Thanks so much for entering – and commenting – the comments have been very helpful.
-Michelle
I try to give myself a break on Saturdays and instead of coding web pages or marketing or writing new articles or book chapters, just explore what others are writing and doing out there on the Internet. Here are five sites that I found today that were new to me and that I thoroughly enjoyed. [...]
Just comment on any Organically Inclined article – or any article over at Large Families Today – and you’ll be entered to win:
A sample of Sinupret for Kids
A copy of Dr. Bob Sears book, “The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood”
A Sinupret activity book, stickers and bear
Cute little kids’ binoculars
Sinupret for Kids is a plant-based, natural [...]
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