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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:47PM Unbelievable!When did I step into this time machine? Time has just flown! It has been four weeks since my last blog entry. I was brought up Catholic and this is beginning to sound like confession! I guess it is to a certain extent. Finding the time with a third baby has proven much more difficult than previous fantasies had me believing. Typing with one hand is not that simple, I really don't recommend it. Now it is sounding more like excuses and less like a confession. In order for it to be confession like I guess I should say exactly what it is I have done. I have completely shirked my duties when it comes to my creative outlets. I write for this blog and 5 others. It sounds like a lot because it is. I also write for two publications and I just haven't done any writing in 4 weeks!
It's been lovely though. I haven't experienced; eye strain, back ache, head aches, shoulder strain or any signs of carpal tunnel. I've managed to recover from what my husband swears was Swine Flu. My husband and daughter also suffered through a week of hellish flu symptoms that had us down for the count. We never ate or drank better in our lives! Or since, because now we are just running through gallons of Superfood and raw milk. We are eating more greens than ever and really cutting back on our refined sugar intake and I've vowed to pick up yoga once a week again. Figures, the minute I drop it, I'm sick.
Now that I'm mended and back to normal, whatever state that may be, the creative juices are a-flowin' and I am back to crouching like a Harpy at my desk to pund out words with one hand. Keep an eye out for me next week when my new T.V. show (MOMMY MATTERS LIVE!)starts on 33.1 or on www.centralvalleytalk.com Monday's at 11am.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:02PM 
"It is morning. Helen wakes, stretches, and turns over in bed to giver her husband a good-morning kiss. To her surprise he's isn't there. She hears footsteps entering the room, turns again, and is startled to see a stranger coming toward her-someone who's face and voice are unfamiliar. The stranger bends down, arms outstretched, and begins to lift Helen from her bed. The strangers touch is frightening. Helen starts to cry out-and then, abruptly, awakens to the light of day. Helen has had a bad dream. Before too long, it's disquieting emotional echoes will fade away. But for millions of infants and toddlers, Helens bad dream is far too often a reality-a reality that is repeated many times during their first few years of life."
The previous is an excerpt from Chapter 1, Who Cares for Our Children: A Parent's Dilemma, from Dr. Isabelle Fox, Ph.D.'s controversial book BEING THERE The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home Parent. She was a guest on this weeks show, Progressive Parenting. According to Dr. Fox, "Millions of infants and toddlers are being deprived of nurturing care due to both parents working and the frequent changing of primary caregivers."
She proposes the first two years are so integral to the healthy mental outcome of your child, that it is worth reconsidering your current lifestyle to foster this very important window of opportunity in a child's life. She states that most people are willing to get into debt and take out a loan to afford a car or a home, even a college education. However, it never occurs to parents to take out a loan to be able to afford to stay at home for the first two years of your child's life. She contends that in the final analysis, two years is but a blip on the timeline of your life. She believes that investing in a solid foundation is essential, "what good is it to build stories on top of a shaky foundation?" Without a steady foundation anything built on top of it is worthless.
"Caregiver roulette-the frequent change of primary caregivers-can cause lifelong and severe emotional damage."
The dangers of Caregiver Roulette are made up of the 5 D's:
Dr. Fox went on to say that what children need to thrive are what she refers to as the three P's.
Proximity, Protection and predictability.
To hear more, tune in Thursday at 1pm on 88.1 KFCF FM, or listen streaming live at www.kfcf.org
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 10:14PM I just got back from Nashville Tennesse not 10 minutes ago. What a wonderful weekend! Attachment Parenting International started 15 years ago, with two moms who met at a La Leche League meeting in Nashville Tennessee. What is API?
API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. For life. So they can take those bonds with them into their adult lives and share them with their children. And their children can do the same. A life cycle of compassion and connection.
Through education, support, advocacy and research, our principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.
The celebration consisted of a silent auction and a concert staring Vince Gill and Grammy Award winning artist Gary Nicholson and their children! There was a panel of speakers that was awesome! The panel included Ina May Gaskin, Barbara Nicholson, Mary Ann Cahill, James J. Mckenna, PhD, Dr. William Sears, Isabelle Fox, PhD, Martha sears RN and Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE.
I had an amazing time there and will post more about the event and Attachment Parenting in the future.
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 9:50PM Don’t miss Dr. Fields!
Dr. Fieldswill be on this Thursday’s edition of Progressive Parenting. He will be joined by Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy, the show’s topic; POOP or Number 2, the Number 1 Topic! Every parent deals with it, worries about it and talks about it more than they ever thought they could pre-kids. Find out more about keeping your kids tummies functioning at their optimum. Learn about what California Dairy Farmers don’t want you to know about…RAW MILK. This show will prove to be very interesting!
Just you try and listen and not giggle just a little. But seriously, this is a show not to miss. If you would like a copy of the show contact Gena at 559-930-2032. Progressive Parenting is on every Thursday at 1pm, you can now listen STREAMING LIVE!
http://stream2.streamq.net:8020/
Paste the above link into your WinAmp, Windows Media Player, etc under file: Play URL
or tune in at 88.1 FM KFCF
