Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week.
Sunday Surf is back! For today! I'm not promising to keep this up weekly as in the past, but every once in awhile, I have links and other resources I just wanna share. To make life easier for me, I'm going to embed them from the original share source. Hope that works-ish.
Here we go!
The Misery Argument. #homeschooling #unschooling http://ow.ly/3zlP07
I've never understood why we'd want to train our kids to endure misery.
Photographer turns #breastfeeding babies and their mamas into #mermaids. #normalizebreastfeeding http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1116895/mermaid-nursing-her-baby
This whole series makes me snort-laugh. I love that generations upon generations of painters have accurately portrayed women tolerating being talked at by men.
A new article in the journal Pediatrics is calling on health professionals to stop saying that breastfeeding is natural, arguing that doing so gives the impression that natural parenting practices are healthier. The authors have started a public campaign to end the positive use of the word natural, claiming that it is associated with such "problematic" practices as home birth, homeschooling and the rejection of GMO foods, and that natural parenting movements are interfering with vaccination efforts.
Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week.
We're not letting the wintry rain get us down.
The family headed downtown to the museums and monorail.
Thanks to Google+ for this automagicked motion! (Connect with me if you're on G+!)
We stopped in a Japanese novelty store, where most everything's $1.50,
and the boys got these tubes. Why? Why, indeed. They love them.
Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week.
There's a game at Chuck E. Cheese that we all three play together
— it involves bopping space aliens —
and we let the tickets build up to a dramatic finale!
I've been super impressed that Alrik's agreed to
get this near Charles E. Fromage —
he'll even give him a high-five now.
Speaking of brave, this picture's from a visit Shannon made alone with all four kids while
Sam & I had a date! I know. Mega-star.
By nursing in public I am doing my bit in shifting the framing of breasts back to feeding rather than sexing and it’s important enough to me to risk Death Stares and Facebook rants.
It’s not militant, it’s not aggressive, it’s no Gestapo-like boob army. It’s just a mother breastfeeding her baby when the baby needs it. It’s a natural, normal activity that has been done since time began and shouldn’t be hidden under a bushel.
"32" - Taylor Swift "22" music video parody. I particularly laughed at the part about finding a dentist and about my whole body being sore from walking up a staircase. And I totally do have acne AND wrinkles!
Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week.
Does anyone else feel like the Christmas season is racing by? Stop, stop, stop! I want some of that kid-perspective of Advent-lasts-foreeeever-and-when-is-it-going-to-be-Christmas-already, because I can't believe it's almost here and we've done about … oh … 5 things on our list of 100 possibilities. I'm trying to slow down a bit and just enjoy it, regardless. We have our tree and stockings up now, so that's nice!
I thought you'd want to enjoy this epic bedhead from Alrik's nap.
I also gave him a haircut that day. You'd think that was because of or after the bedhead, right? Nope, the haircut came first and apparently unleashed even more volume. But the back of his head's pretty much always like that. We got off easy with Mikko and his self-styling locks.
Of course, not that we do much at all to keep this kid looking this cute.
Having unrealistic expectations, for example expecting your toddler to sit quietly during dinner for an hour, sets parents up for frustration – thereby undermining gentle intentions. Imagining malicious intention can be even worse. Imagine your 11 month old throwing food off of their tray. If you imagine she is doing it intentionally to annoy you your reaction will be very different than if you imagine she is having a great time learning about her power over objects.
Thank you for making me feel bad challenging me to be less lazy, to pick a few things up and to try a new activity. To switch off the TV and hand over the glitter pots.
[…]
Thank you for helping me realise that you doing what you do to the very best of your abilities isn’t an indictment on me. It’s just you celebrating your strengths as I compare, identify and then celebrate mine! And also for showing me that you can’t make me feel anything, and I own my feelings and should take responsibility for them rather than blaming you for being great.
I want to think of arranging my house as if I live in a hotel. One of the best experiences in my life was living in England for a summer during college and having a whole bookshelf for about 10 books and a whole closet for half a dozen outfits — it felt decadent and right. And it was SO EASY to clean up!
But the best thing about the Firelight Lodge (or any hotel for that matter) is that we each checked in with only 1 suitcase each full of our favourite things.
And that has to be the single most compelling reason for getting rid of clutter that I can think of. Seriously, have you ever walked into a hotel room and thought:what this place is missing is a whole lot of my crap?
Sure, sometimes a comfortable bed or a sharp knife would be a pleasant addition, but do you miss your 46 tea towels or your laundry day underwear? Do you ever get a hankering to fix that broken flashlight you’ve been hanging onto?
I'm Lauren Wayne, writer and natural parent. I embrace attached parenting with an emphasis toward green living.
Riding the rails with my husband, Crackerdog Sam, and our hobo kids, Mikko Lint Picker (born June 2007), Alrik Irontrousers (born May 2011), and Karsten (born October 2014). Trying every day to parent intentionally and with grace.
Welcome to the Sunday Surf, a tour of the best blogposts I've read throughout the week. 
I'm Lauren Wayne, writer and natural parent. I embrace attached parenting with an emphasis toward green living. 
