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Global Children's Art Gallery: New Page Added

See 10 new pictures on page 111, including our first ever pictures from Fiji! View over 1,000 more works of 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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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..."
On Seeing Children as "Cute" by John Holt
"We should try to get out of the habit of seeing little children as cute. By this I mean that we should try to be more aware of what it is in children to which we respond and to tell which responses are authentic, respectful, and life-enhancing, and which are condescending or sentimental..."
Breastfeeding in the Land of Ghenghis Khan by Ruth Kamnitzer
"Raising my son in a place where attitudes to breastfeeding are so dramatically different from prevailing norms in North America opened my eyes to an entirely different vision of how it all could be..."
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"The wildest colts make the best horses."

- Plutarch
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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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