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Idle parents in search of a slow, free range childhoodvideos
"It seems to me that today we are speeding up children too much in some ways (academic hot-housing, for example)," explained Slow Movement chronicler Carl Honoré to the New York Times' Lisa Belkin, "while slowing them down too much in other ways (not letting them walk to school alone until ...
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2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 5 comments
Slow, free range, idle parents can increase IQ and happinessblogs
In my Silicon Valley hometown, there seemed to be only one speed for raising children: fast forward to college. Here kids are prepped for "success" (i.e. the right colleges) as soon as they can toddle to a sport or art class, if not before with nannies to assure their ...
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2 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff 11 comments
Elimination Communication: on the toilet at 6 weeks oldvideos
There are many ways environmentally-concerned parents can try to avoid the waste of disposable diapers (I've read estimates that diapering one child can use from 4 to 20 trees). We've tried flushables, pocket diapers and potty training at 16 months to avoid the cost of disposables (both environmental ...
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6 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Who decides when to potty train: you, baby or Big Diapers?blogs
At my moms' group a few months ago, another mother noticed my then 2-year-old & 1 month daughter wasn't wearing a diaper and said, "She's young to be without a diaper". Used to hearing this since we'd started her on the pot at 16 months, I just said ...
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6 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 4 comments
How to choose a diaper: one size does not fit allblogs
My sister, pregnant with twins, emailed me last week saying she was
overwhelmed by all the options for non-disposable diapers and asked if
there was a particular type I'd recommend. My sister is an idealist, a
perfectionist and usually overworked, so I wrote back suggesting she
first buy a ...
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7 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Cameron Diaz's childfree status & non-breeders as eco-herosblogs
It's significant that one of the world's "sexiest" women has gone public that she may never have children. When Cameron Diaz told the UK's Cosmopolitan Magazine this month that the planet doesn't need any more children, she acknowledged it's not easy for a woman to ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Potty Diaries: training via skypevideos
Our faircompanies baby is not quite two, but thanks to a lot of time from grandma and her Slow Potty Training method, she seems to understand how to put her own bottom on the loo (saving us, and the landfills, a lot of dirty diapers). In this video, Inés consults ...
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9 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Potty diaries: quality time on the loovideos
During her first diaper-free summer, faircompanies' baby Inés spent a lot of time with her potty training grandparents. From the moment grandma took off her diaper in June (age 16 months) until we left for our home in Barcelona in August (18 months), Inés spent many hours drawing, reading, talking ...
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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Potty Diaries: pee pee on the trainvideos
When you're trying to get a kid out of diapers as early as possible- to avoid the thousands of diapers, and trees, needed per year-, there are a few locations that can prove challenging for getting a tiny tush on a toilet.In this video, we travel by train ...
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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Potty diaries: starting to ask to govideos
In this installment of our diaper training journey, Inés has started to ask to go pee pee or poo poo, though uses the word pee pee for both actions. It's not every time so can be frustrating, but she only has pee accidents and with no carpet, pee pee ...
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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments