Links to other Great Sites

http://awareparenting.com/twenty.htm  Aletha Solter, PhD, is a developmental psychologist, international speaker, consultant, and founder of the Aware Parenting Institute. She has four published parenting books, and is recognized internationally as an expert on attachment, trauma, and non-punitive discipline.

http://www.attachmentparenting.org/ The mission of Attachment Parenting International (API) is to promote parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. We believe these practices nurture and fulfill a child's need for trust, empathy, and affection, providing a lifelong foundation for healthy, enduring relationships.

CPS  www.cps.org.nz  For most children, New Zealand is a wonderful place to grow up in. Some are not so lucky. Childhood trauma, abuse, and neglect are a fact of life (and sometimes death) for too many of our young people.

www.naturalchild.com  Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

After Effects of Physical Punishment studies and many
more interesting articles. www.naturalchild.org

Tips & FAQs - Ways to Prevent Child Abuse In
Your Community http://www.denvercac.org

Why Attachment Parenting?
Centre for attachment, a New Zealand resource http://www.centreforattachment.com

Primal Therapy.  Dr Authur Janov developed a process of re-experiencing repressed psychological trauma was discovered. The Janovs observed many of their patients making an important breakthrough as they relived the pains of childhood. These deeply felt feelings became known as "Primal Pain".   http://www.primalinstitute.com

Circle of Security Watch their attachment bonding video. Bridging the gap between what's known in terms of chilren's developmental needs and what's practiced.

Heather Forbes: If you’ve done logic, consequences, behavior modification, yelling, isolation, and more, all to find out that it didn’t work, or even made things worse, you know what it is like to find yourself beyond your window of tolerance. This parenting training can change all of that.

PRE AND PERINATAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Amethyst Resource for Human Development. Amethyst are based in Dublin, Ireland.  Genevieve attended a six month intensive Energy Healing and Counselling course with them in 1993. http://www.holistic.ie/amethyst/index.htm

http://violence.de/tv/rockabye.html  The Time Life documentary "Rock A Bye Baby" describes the influence of different practices in infant treatment and child rearing on emotional development, both in humans and in monkeys.

www.childtrauma.org Read about the work of Dr Bruce Perry M.D. PhD. The mission of the Academy is to help improve the lives of traumatized and maltreated children.  We endea

www.byronchild.com   byronchild magazine supports and gives voice to the powerful movement towards conscious parenting and conscious living. “Children are by nature social beings, born with the drive to love and be loved, to learn about their world
through spontaneous play, exploration, and participation/ inclusion in the activities of their elders, to cooperate with others, and to contribute to their world.”

www.labouroflove.org Hilary:  “I define conscious parenting as a path where one is mindful of the impacts of our actions on our children - where we place as sacred the act of guiding our children through their lives in ways that free them to be who they truly are; and in ways that enable us as parents to realize more of who we are on the way.”