Vote for your favorite photos in NPN’s Flickr contest, and see your top picks in the finals on May 21!  Read More…

Leave a comment | Posted in Arts and Crafts, Attachment Parenting, Consensual Living, Continuum Parenting, Equally Shared Parenting, Natural Learning, Natural Parenting Products, Parenting Philosophies, Radical Unschooling, Reviews and Giveaways

Adrienne shares some tips to help partners of nursing moms to be supportive and helpful throughout the nursing relationship.  Read More…

2 Comments | Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Consensual Living, Equally Shared Parenting, Family Structure, Feeding With Love, Parenting Philosophies

The parental united front builds a brick wall, with the children locked out on the other side. When you change that to a united family, an entirely different view of problem-solving and collaboration opens up. You are forced to confront your true needs and reasons behind a direction. When those are clear, then you work together as a united family–parents and children–against the problem, with a large opening to see fresh solutions that were outside our own narrow perspective. It is amazing how talking through an issue can help everyone gets their needs met.
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3 Comments | Posted in Attachment Parenting, Balance, Consensual Living, Equally Shared Parenting, Family Structure, Gentle Discipline, Parenting Philosophies, Responding With Sensitivity

Both asking for and then dealing with help caring for my daughter have been spiritual lessons. As an attachment parent, sharing her care has taught me a great deal about parenting and about myself.  Read More…

3 Comments | Posted in Alternative Caregivers, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Consensual Living, Consistent Care, Equally Shared Parenting, Family Structure, Parenting Philosophies, Responding With Sensitivity, Work and Family

This week we asked you to share partnership parenting with us. Read more about parenting and partners on our resource page. Link up!  Read More…

11 Comments | Posted in Equally Shared Parenting, Parenting Philosophies, Wordless Wednesday

Lauren lays out the pros and cons of working from home while raising a family.  Read More…

26 Comments | Posted in Balance, Continuum Parenting, Equally Shared Parenting, Homeschooling, Natural Learning, Parenting Philosophies, Radical Unschooling, Work and Family

I’m not going to go into the details, explain, justify, or tell how it came about. The end result is, now I’m doing equally-shared parenting (to the best of our ability) with two partners at the same time. We’ve considered all sorts of living arrangements, but we’re all devoted to the kids, so what we’ve come to is this: The adults will be adults, and we will live together in one house, and the kids will have stability and not have to go back and forth from one house to another.  Read More…

4 Comments | Posted in Attachment Parenting, Balance, Equally Shared Parenting, Family Structure, Parenting Philosophies

Sam and I have had to get creative in finding locations to bring a rowdy toddler that are shielded from some of the worst of the winter weather but are away from home and affordable to us. The suggestions below are some we’ve come up with. There’s a range of how indoors they are, so you can decide your cold tolerance. There’s also a range of expense involved, from free on up. Some options are better for younger babies, some for our age of tot and some for older kids.  Read More…

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