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Raising Rebels is a highlights reel of guidance from one of the world's most sought-after Peaceful Parenting and Radical Unschooling advocates. Dayna Martin cuts to the core of common concepts with compassion, kindness, and unconventional wisdom, urging us to reframe outdated parenting perspectives to forge a freer future for our families.

Radical Unschooling is a progressive parenting philosophy, which includes children learning at home. It is different from homeschooling in that children are not forced to follow curriculum lessons and tests. Radical Unschooling philosophy focuses on trust of a child's innate ability to learn without coercion and invites children to explore their passions. The parent's role is to facilitate their interests and curiosity. Radical Unschooling - the book - focuses also on the evolutionary aspect of parenting and human consciousness....

A new mother is brought by her doctor husband to a summer house to relax. He has determined that she suffers from a nervous condition. She is told to rest and she must have no intellectual or social stimulation. Her child and the house are taken care of by trusted others. She surreptitiously writes when no one is around. At first she is disturbed by the yellow wallpaper in the room she is staying in. when she requests another room, she is told that it is not good for her to have her whims attended to.

When a fire destroys the factory where Willow Miller works, her only choice for a secure future comes through becoming a mail-order bride to ex-Amish Amos Stoltzfus and moving to her ancestral home of Pennsylvania. Hope carries her forward into a new life, but guilt over her part in the fire that destroyed the factory threatens to hold her back.

It seems we all are looking for healthier options when it comes to our diet. Salads are a great place to start because they contain ingredients that are recommended by the top health experts. These experts recommend consuming 9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily for optimum health. The salads outlined in 25 Easy Salad Recipes: Salads For Dinner or Anytime offer some quick and easy salads that not only taste delicious, they provide some of those recommended daily fruits and vegetables.

In this audiobook, Salads - 101 Simple Salad Recipes for Optimum Health, you will discover 101 simple salads recipes you'll be sure to love. These simple salads taste great and provide your body with the macronutrients your body craves and several salad dressings that are low in calories and simply taste great. Michael has found that by simply incorporating a salad for lunch each day with these delicious salad recipes, you can lower your overall calorie consumption, which is ideal for weight loss.

Top Recommended Smoothies That Feed Your Body For Better Health Research from the World Health Organization (WHO), states that obesity is on a staggering rise. Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. Their research shows that in 2008 more than 1.4 billion adults are obese. It is Michael L. Becker's goal to help reduce this growing disease by providing people with healthy alternatives to fattening, processed foods.

Childbirth educator and doula Dayna Martin takes the truth about birth to new, provocative levels. Being responsible for your birth means shifting from a cultural place of control, to a place of trust and inner knowing that all is well and as it should be. It is a space of acceptance for what is; then from that disposition of well-being, informed decisions can be made. A place of fear or worry isn't the best place to be when making decisions; but unfortunately, in our culture, fear is what fuels most decisions.

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Evelina Grey returns to her home town after being away for twenty five years. She is frail and her face is veiled at all times. He neighbors help her clean up her house and garden. Araminta Lee, a young girl who is helping Evenlina injures her ankle while cleaning.

From the North Carolina Piedmont to the forests of Hungary, Jody Mace examines the mundanity of everyday life and finds the kernel of eternal truth. Or else she just makes one up. Contemplate Schrödinger's human head in your dryer or find a way to make peace with Barbie. A journalist and freelance writer in Charlotte, Jody has collected a dozen of her essays on family life that will have you thinking deeply and laughing heartily.

Unlike most folks, Hannah Westley never outgrew her childhood sense of wonder. Her first twenty years on the farm were the beginning of a life filled with adventure. Her simple childhood was rich with experiences that offer a glimpse into a time when family values had real meaning. The maps in the one-room Mine Bank School were her Bible and by the eighth grade she had read all of the books in the library.

Lilly Lind was forced to emigrate from Sweden two years ago, due to circumstances beyond her control. She finds a job as a garment maker in the Brown Textile Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finally feeling as though she is settling in her new country. Then a suspicious fire burns the mill, making Lilly seek another way to survive. She answers a mail-order bride ad in the Grooms' Gazette and sets off for Chicago, believing she will be a business owner's wife.

Alec McCandless created a new national political party. He nominates himself for the Presidency. He runs a slugfest campaign against political corruption, and is elected to the office of President of the New American Republic in a landslide. Using the New Constitution that he had helped write, Alec immediately seizes the reins of The Executive political, economic, judicial and military powers. He gathers both ‘de jure’ and ‘de facto’ controls to himself.

There are innumerable ways to gather knowledge about the cosmos we inhabit. What makes science so powerful is that it allows for such findings to be publicly aired and scrutinized and tested, not only with the world it is trying to understand, but with other vying alternative models which differ from each other. Perhaps science's greatest contribution is that at its best it is open to refutation and is thereby open to change.

If you downloaded this book to better help with your self-regulation as an adult, you're in the right place! Many adults find themselves in their adult life, feeling like they still haven't mastered their abilities to self-regulate and control their emotions appropriately. There are many emotions that we struggle with each and every day, like anger and anxiety.

When a beekeeper loses all his bees, a local garden shop owner vows to find an answer. But will she be able to save the bees, or is it to late? Will a lone kayaker discover clues in his research on the bayou that lead to a solution? Can the mayor protect other beekeepers from the same fate? Or, will they uncover more mysteries along the murky waters of the Moctobi Bayou?

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 10 Day Green Smoothie Cleanse and learn about low-cholesterol smoothie recipes.

With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights".

After tragedy strikes, a woman moves back to familiar ground to raise her son and to build on a forgotten dream: to build a garden center and nursery. But she soon discovers digging in the garden can reveal more than dirt. Community Gardens is a cozy novella that takes a witty and insightful look into friendships and compassion.