The Natural Parenting Movement
The Natural Parenting Movement was born out of a desire by the parents of today's children to raise healthier and happier kids than the previous generation's children. It has been around since the 60's in the U.S. Parents trying to protect their kids from what they saw as a toxic future began throwing out the processed foods and instead buying foods locally and from organic farmers. We started drinking spring water or filtering out the fluoride, heavy metals and other contaminants. And that was just the beginning. All of a sudden parents started taking a good hard look at everything that was going into and onto our children, not just food and water. Now we wanted to know what was inside their mattresses, cabinets, and paint. We started asking questions about cosmetics and hair products, bath soaps and shampoos. And of course medicine, especially, vaccines. If it was going to be ingested or inhaled by our kids we wanted to know if it was safe.
Today the movement is alive and growing. With the advent of the internet, information that use to involve a physical trip to the Library of Congress, now requires a simple "google" or "pubmed" search. If you want to know what ingredients are in your child's medication, cdc.gov has everything you can imagine. Parent's today who are part of the Natural Parenting Movement are no longer working off assumptions and rumors, they are armed with the hard numbers. And they aren't going to stop until every last parent knows what they know, so that American children wont have to suffer at the hands of regulatory agencies who time and time again let the ball drop on their most important task: protecting the health of our children.
I came onto the scene in 2006. I was pregnant with my first baby and committed to be the best parent I could be. I started out by reading parenting books. How to handle the different developmental stages and what milestones to look for. I entered the parenting realm completely without prejudice or judgement of the decisions of other parents. I was a blank slate. The only thing I came with was the thirst for knowledge and the interest of protecting my children that I had learned from my own mother. But along the way, I began to learn things that completely changed me as both a person and a mother. I have developed this website to share that knowledge with you, in hopes that you can make informed decisions based off of data and not fear or propaganda.
You are your child's only advocate in this world. They need you to learn to Question Everything!
Today the movement is alive and growing. With the advent of the internet, information that use to involve a physical trip to the Library of Congress, now requires a simple "google" or "pubmed" search. If you want to know what ingredients are in your child's medication, cdc.gov has everything you can imagine. Parent's today who are part of the Natural Parenting Movement are no longer working off assumptions and rumors, they are armed with the hard numbers. And they aren't going to stop until every last parent knows what they know, so that American children wont have to suffer at the hands of regulatory agencies who time and time again let the ball drop on their most important task: protecting the health of our children.
I came onto the scene in 2006. I was pregnant with my first baby and committed to be the best parent I could be. I started out by reading parenting books. How to handle the different developmental stages and what milestones to look for. I entered the parenting realm completely without prejudice or judgement of the decisions of other parents. I was a blank slate. The only thing I came with was the thirst for knowledge and the interest of protecting my children that I had learned from my own mother. But along the way, I began to learn things that completely changed me as both a person and a mother. I have developed this website to share that knowledge with you, in hopes that you can make informed decisions based off of data and not fear or propaganda.
You are your child's only advocate in this world. They need you to learn to Question Everything!