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Archive for the 'Education' Category

Precaution Required With Electromagnetic Fields

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Electronic gadgets, as well as high tension power lines, generate electromagnetic fields that researchers are finding to be harmful to health. Children are particularly at risk and one group of parents wants Wi-Fi removed from their children’s elementary school because the kids have been suffering ill-effects that go away on weekends and during the summer.

ADHD Diagnosis Linked to Diet

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the descriptive label given to an ever-increasing number of children – especially boys – who have trouble fitting into the school system and disrupt family life. Complaints about their behavioral “problems” include hyperactivity, poor attention span, lack of concentration, disruptiveness, clumsiness, recklessness, defiance, and irritability.  As I wrote in [...]

Parenting For the Sake of Our Children

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

For the Sake of Our Children is a new book about home birth, natural parenting, respectful parenting and unschooling, written from the perspective of a father.

Education as a Path to Sustainability

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Education is one of the topics that we regularly cover in Natural Life Magazine. That’s because we believe that making changes to how we treat and educate our children is crucial to the act of building a truly sustainable society. One of our most revered and supposedly democratic institutions uses the tool of compulsion to [...]