Author Archives: Shannon
About The Author: Shannon
Shannon blogs at Pineapples & Artichokes. She also contributes recipes to Food & Laughter.
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Featured Blogger: Adrienne Anderson
Adrienne, one of our resources editors, hopes to become a doula one day so that she can “help other mothers at the beginning of their journeys and empower them to know that it’s okay to follow their guts even it goes against what their doctors or other ‘professionals’ may tell them.” Read on to learn about her family and how she found her way as a parent. MORE
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Meet the Mentors: Shae, Mandy, Amy, Joni, and Acacia
You have all read the amazing advice offered up in our Meet the Mentor posts, now get to know five of them a little bit better. This is the first in a series of posts to introduce you to each of our mentors and learn more about their personal parenting philosophies, and how they came to find their way as parents. MORE
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Featured Blogger: Abbie Walston
Abbie is the daughter of a farmer, married to the son of a farmer, and now lives on her own farm with her family. She has always been an environmentalist, and loves teaching. Abbie combined those two passions into a career as an environmental educator, but shares her knowledge with us on NPN for free! MORE
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Featured Blogger: Jennifer Saleem
Jennifer is passionate about mothering, peaceful parenting, Waldorf and Steiner education, and learning. She also has a great love of animals and has been involved in animal rescue for 15 years. “I truly enjoy giving and helping others/sharing myself brings me great joy.” She is working to start a business summer of 2011, geared towards helping helping parents, but she can’t tell us the secret details yet. Let’s wish her luck. MORE
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Featured Blogger: Luschka
If Luschka, one of our NPN mentors and authors, could change one thing about the world, she would help foster a stronger sense of community. “I’d have a world where my children can play in the street with other children, where people looked out for their neighbours and every child was every mother’s child and protected as such. ” Read on for more about her adventurous, loving family. MORE
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Featured Blogger: Julia
Julia shares inspiration and support at Natural Parents Network’s Stumbleupon page. She discovered natural parenting through her aversion to hormonal birth control which lead her to fertility awareness, natural birth, Dr Sears, and La Leche League. She says parenthood has made her “a lot stronger as a person. I let what people think influence me a lot less than I used to.” MORE
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Featured Blogger: Amanda
Our fabulous editor, Amanda, has only recently started to blog at Let’s Take the Metro. She talks there about her life, products she loves, and shares some delicious recipes. The thing that surprised her the most about parenthood is how long she can be functional on such little sleep. MORE
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Featured Blogger: Stacy at Mama-Om
Stacy aims to practice mindful parenting each day with her family in the Seattle area. As a homeschooling mom, she and her boys get to spend all day together exploring the world, and she relishes the experience, even when it’s not one she would have sought out on her own. “Some of our most best times are when I am at the park with them, and it is just us, and they ask me to play monster, and I do, and we run around the play structures, trying to get each other, circling and chasing and laughing.” MORE
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Featured Blogger: Shae
Once Shae got a comment on a Facebook link from someone saying they wanted to be just like her when she grew up. That was the first time she ever felt grown up herself. She would love to see the world less concerned with money and power, in the hopes that then the government would be willing to take better care of the health and happiness of all people. That’s an incredibly noble goal, and one I think we can all support. MORE
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Featured Blogger: Arpita Monahan
Arpita writes about fertility issues, and her journey to Natural Parenting both here on NPN and at her blog, Up, Down & Natural. Her hope for the world is that we can all learn to be more accepting of differences and be less inclined to use violence to solve our issues. MORE