Issue 41 - Spring 2014 - Article Resources

• A MESSAGE FROM OUR EDITOR | Jeanne Ohm, DC
  

• SPECIAL | The Mother and Child Connection
  

• CONSCIOUS PATH | Turning Point
  

• FEATURE | Why Children Need Community
  

• COMMUNITY | Our Drive to Bond
  

• PARENTING | Attachment and the Development of Resilience
  

• WELLNESS LIFESTYLE | 11 Things I Wish Every Parent Knew
  

• FAMILY LIVING | Making the Connection
  

• FAMILY LIVING | You’re Glowing. Literally
  

• INNATE EXPRESSIONS | Adjusting for Life
  

• SUSTAINABLE LIVING | Hatching Spring: Creating Eggshell Gardens
  

• TOUCHING THE FUTURE | Erasing Misconceptions
  

• CHIROPRACTIC FOR LIFE | The Growing Role of Chiropractic in Childbirth Education
  

• PREGNANCY | The Pregnancy Circle
  

• HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE | A New Leaf: 8 Conscious Choices for a Healthier Pregnancy
  

• INFORMED CHOICE | Cancer: Shifting Our Perception
  

• MOMENT OF TRUTH | Rethinking “Racing for the Cure”
  

• NUTRITION | Chickweed Is a Star
  

A Message from our Editor: Choosing Our Perspective

Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

• Editorials
  

• A reading of “The Blind Men and the Elephant” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVBQefNXIw
  

The Mother and Child Connection

Laura Grace Weldon

• “Three types of fetal cells can migrate into maternal organs during pregnancy,”: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606155802.htm
  

• Microchimerism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism
  

• “Fetal Cell Microchimerism in the Maternal Heart – Baby Gives Back,”: http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/110/1/3.full
  

• “Happy Healthy Child: A Holistic Approach”: http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Children-s-Health-Wellness/happy-healthy-child-a-holistic-approach.html
  

  
  

Turning Point

Gregg Braden

• Excerpted with permission by Hay House at www.hayhouse.com
  

• “Turning Point: Creating Resilience in the Time of Extremes,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVP5l3ySotw&t=13
  

Why Children Need Community

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

• “Why Young People Protest Bedtime: Evolutionary Mismatch,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201110/why-young-children-protest-bedtime-evolutionary-mismatch
  

• “Psychology Today: Sleep,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/sleep
  

• “Psychology Today: Empathy,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/empathy
  

• “Psychology Today: Marriage,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/marriage
  

• “Psychology Today: Child Development,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/child-development
  

• “Play Makes Us Human III: Play is Foundation for Religion,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200906/play-makes-us-human-iii-play-is-foundation-religion
  

• Devore, Murdock & Whiting (1968). In Richard B. Lee & Irven DeVore, Man the Hunter, 337

• Barry, Child, & Baron (1959), "Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy," American Anthropologist, 61, 51-63.

Additional Resources

• “Trustful Parenting May Require an Alternative to Conventional Schooling,”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEk4ca1a4XU
  

• For contrast, read the article, “Predatory Leadership” in this magazine: http://www.rethinkingeverythingmagazine.com/uploads/6/4/0/8/6408350/re_life_issue_one_final.pdf
  

• “The Play Deficit,”: http://forestofpeace.info/2014/01/23/the-play-deficit-%C2%B7-%C2%B7-if-children-lose-contact-with-nature-they-wont-fight-for-it/
  

• “The Efe Forager Infant and Toddler’s Pattern of Social Relationships: Multiple and Simultaneous,”: http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/emot/tronickmorelli.efe.dp92.pdf
  

• Barry, Child, & Baron (1959), "Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy," American Anthropologist, 61, 51-63

• “This Woman Just Ended the Mommy Wars with One Facebook Status,”: http://www.babble.com/kid/this-woman-just-ended-the-mommy-wars-with-one-facebook-status/
  

Our Drive to Bond

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD

• “Happy Healthy Child: A Holistic Approach,”: http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Children-s-Health-Wellness/happy-healthy-child-a-holistic-approach.htmlAdditional Resources
  

• “Gasping Through Marriage, Are We Expecting Too Much?”,: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/02/suffocating-marriage
  

Attachment and the Development of Resilience

Chris White, MD

• “Attachment and the Development of Resilience,”: http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/blogs/attachment-and-development-resilience
  

• Gordon Neufeld, “What Makes a Child Easy to Parent?”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcaMsZrElnE
  

• “Gordon Neufeld on Attachment Parenting,”: http://www.imfcanada.org/dr-gordon-neufeld-on-attachment
  

11 Things I Wish Every Parent Knew

Stephen Cowan, MD, FAAP

• Stephen Cowan: http://www.stephencowanmd.com, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-cowan-md/
  

• Stephen Cowan, “Fire Child, Water Child: How Understanding the Five Types of ADHD Can Help You Improve Your Child's Self-Esteem and Attention,”: http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Child-Water-Understanding-Self-Esteem/dp/1608820904
  

Additional Resources

• “Neuroplasticity: Learning Physically Changes the Brain,” http://www.edutopia.org/neuroscience-brain-based-learning-neuroplasticity
  

• “Children are our teachers,”: http://www.mothering.com/community/a/children-are-our-teachers
  

• “Lifting a Veil of Fear to See a Few Benefits of Fever,”: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11klass.html
  

• “A New Attitude Towards Fever,”: http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Holistic-Healthcare/a-new-attitude-toward-fevers-an-interview-with-philip-incao-md.html
  

• “Children’s Health: A Question of Balance,”: http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Holistic-Healthcare/childrens-health-a-question-of-balance.html
  

• “What Parents Can Learn From Kids,”: http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak?utm_source=direct-on.ted.com&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&awesm=on.ted.com_a04Oc
  

Making the Connection

Lori Petro

• “Teaching Through Love,”: http://www.teach-through-love.com/
  

Additional Resources

• “Talking With Kids,”: http://www.pbs.org/parents/talkingwithkids/index.html
  

• “Orange Rhino Challenge,”: http://theorangerhino.com/
  

• Parent and Children in Conflict,”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/peaceful-parenting/201101/parents-children-in-conflict
  

• Library of Parenting Articles from The Center for Parenting Education. http://centerforparentingeducation.org/library-of-articles/
  

• “How to Talk to Kids,”: http://www.teach-through-love.com/how-to-talk-to-kids.html#compassiontalk
  

• “How Kids Heal Through Play,”: http://mamablog.teach-through-love.com/2013/09/how-kids-heal-through-play.html
  

You’re Glowing, Literally.

Bruce Dolin, Psy. D.

• “Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light.”: http://www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible-light.html
  

• “Imaging of Ultraweak Spontaneous Photon Emission from Human Body Displaying Diurnal Rhythm.”: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006256
  

Adjusting for Life

Ian Shtulman, DC

• Remember that you can keyword search our past issues. There are various additional articles on chiropractic and seizures. You can read more at http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Search/newest-first.html?searchphrase=exact&searchword=seizures

Creating Eggshell Gardens

Lisa Denardo

• “How to Plant Sees Using Eggshells,”: http://www.17apart.com/2012/01/how-to-plant-seeds-using-eggshells.html
  

• Video instruction on how to create an eggshell garden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZsbDbU0ts
  

• An alternative with recyclable paper: http://www.gardenbetty.com/2011/03/how-to-make-recycled-newspaper-pots-for-seed-starting/
  

Erasing Misconceptions: Setting the Record Straight on Six Homeschooling Myths

Laura Grace Weldon

• Laura Weldon, “Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything.” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193538709X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=193538709X&linkCode=as2&tag=simplehomeschoolnet-20
  

• Laura Weldon: http://lauragraceweldon.com/
  

• “Get Out Now: How School Violence Led Us To Homeschooling,” http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/12/school-violence-homeschooling/
  

• “National Education Testing: A Debate,” http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/policy-report/2001/7/education.pdf
  

• “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472322/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345472322&linkCode=as2&tag=simplehomeschoolnet-20
  

• “Observe the Goldilocks Effect in Action,” http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/08/28/observe-the-goldilocks-effect-in-action/
  

• “Children Teach Themselves to Read,” http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201002/children-teach-themselves-read
  

• “Family Happiness and the Overbooked Child,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/your-money/childrens-activities-no-guarantee-of-later-success.html?_r=4&
  

• “The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience,” http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/the_educational_value_of_creative_disobedience
  

• “Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain,” http://www.parentingscience.com/benefits-of-play.html
  

• “Successful Teen Homeschooling: Two Vital Factors,” http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/05/24/successful-teen-homeschooling-two-vital-factors/
  

• “How to Learn from Experts,” http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2013/01/find-learn-from-experts/
  

• “Most Students Bored at School,” http://www.livescience.com/1308-students-bored-school.html
  

• “Beyond the Classroom: How School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need To Do,” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684835754/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684835754&linkCode=as2&tag=simplehomeschoolnet-20
  

• “Socialization of Home School Children: A Communication Approach,” http://myplace.frontier.com/~thomas.smedley/smedleys.htm
  

• “Better Test Scores Don’t Lead to Success.” http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/01/30/better-test-scores-dont-lead-to-success/
  

• “How the 10,000 Rule Can Benefit Any Child.” http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/01/10/how-the-10000-hour-rule-can-benefit-any-child/
  

• This article originally ran as a blog at Simple Homeschool: http://simplehomeschool.net/homeschooling-misconceptions/
  

Additional Resources

• The Homeschool Legal Defense Association compiles a legal analysis of each U.S. state’s homeschool law at http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/
  

• Navigating By Joy: http://www.navigatingbyjoy.com/
  

• The Pioneer Woman Homeschooling: http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/
  

• Sandra Dodd: http://sandradodd.com/
  

• Homeschooling Resources: http://www.parents.com/kids/education/home-schooling/best-homeschooling-resources-online/
  

• John Holt http://www.johnholtgws.com/
  

• Education Revolution: http://www.educationrevolution.org/store/
  

• Alfie Kohn: http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.php
  

• The Link: The Nations’ Homeschooling Magazine: http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/
  

• The Smart Parent's Guide to Successfully Homeschooling Children: http://ammo.com/articles/homeschooling-guide-for-parents
  

• Unschooling: http://www.unschooling.org/
  

• Alternative Learning: Advocating Alternatives to Compulsory Education: http://www.alternative-learning.org/
  

• Learn in Freedom: http://learninfreedom.org/
  

• A Guide to Online Homeschooling: http://www.onlineschools.org/homeschooling-guide/
  

Chiropractic in Childbirth Education

Sarah Clark

• The website for Pathways to Family Wellness allows you to search by key word. An extensive list of articles on the Webster Technique can be found at http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Search/newestfirst.html?searchphrase=exact&searchword=webster
  

• “Birth Boot Camp,” - http://birthbootcamp.com/
  

• John Edwards and Joel Alcantara. “Successful Clinical Outcomes Confirmed via Ultrasound in a Patient with Placenta Previa and Breech Fetal Presentation with Chiropractic Care.” Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health - Chiropractic. Vol 2014, Issue 1. 3-9 http://chiropracticpediatrics.sharepoint.com/Pages/2014_1295_placentaprevia.aspx
  

The Pregnancy Circle

Laurel Bay Connell

• Laurel Bay Connell’s site and services - http://www.laurelbayconnell.com/
  

• A very interesting resource for setting up your own pregnancy circle - http://www.womenscircles.com.au/Content/manual-for-setting-up-a-womens-group.html
  

A New Leaf: 8 Conscious Things for a Healthier Pregnancy

Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM

• Follow Kelly Brogan’s blog at http://kellybroganmd.com/blog/
  

• According to Dr. Andrew Weil, the foods you should always buy organic - http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02985/Foods-You-Should-Always-Buy-Organic.html and the ones that you don’t - http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02984/Foods-You-Dont-Have-to-Buy-Organic.html
  

• What is reverse osmosis? http://science.howstuffworks.com/reverse-osmosis1.htm
  

• Why avoid BPA? http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/bpa/faq-20058331
  

• Some recipes for natural, non-toxic cleaning - http://healthychild.org/easy-steps/green-spring-cleaning-9-diy-recipes-for-natural-cleaners/
  

Cancer: Shifting Our Perceptions

Sayer Ji

• Watch Eric Merola’s documentary “Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business.” Vimeo.com. 2012. http://vimeo.com/24821365
  

• An interview with Paul Davies, “Rethinking Our Approach to Cancer.” The Science Show. Feb. 15, 2014. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/rethinking-our-approach-to--cancer/5246414
  

• Read the original research and more at http://cancer-insights.asu.edu/2012/02/is-cancer-an-ancient-throwback/
  

Rethinking “Race for the Cure”

Marcia Shaefer, D.C.

• “Who Benefits from Chiropractic? Cancer is Curable.” http://springcreekfamilychiro.com/who-benefits-from-chiropractic/cancer-is-curable/
  

• To learn more about Gerson Therapy - https://gerson.org/gerpress/the-gerson-therapy/
  

• Joseph Mercola, “Why Medicine Won’t Allow Cancer to be Cured.” Mercola.com. August 3, 2013. Offers preventative steps you can take today to decrease cancer risk - http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/03/naturalcancer-treatment.aspx
  

Chickweed Is a Star

Susan S. Weed

• Interested in learning how to identify Chickweed? It grows in shady areas in many yards and fields. http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Chickweed
  

• “Stellaria media” Plants for a Future. http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Stellaria+media