English Home Educators Under Threat

To the many wonderful people actively campaigning against the government's ridiculous plans threatening home education, you can now download Richard House's article from TM36 (English Home Educators Under Threat). Thanks to our wonderful Web Mother, Karen Arnott, www.arnottdesign.co.uk for making it available so quickly.

Please distribute this far and wide. Time is of the essence. Best wishes, Veronika

http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk/pdfs/home_education_under_threat.pdf

Baby Vaccines

Your local GP may not mention this, but there are doctors around the world who are FINALLY putting their head above the parapet to say that no human should EVER be vaccinated (for any thing). Why? Because every single vaccine that's made contains FOREIGN DNA proteins (whether they be from the host cells of cow, dog, chicken or monkey). The natural viruses in them can't be separated out.

There are many preservatives and adjuvants that are, quite frankly, deadly to the human body.

Baby vaccines contain an INFERTILITY agent (Polysorbate 80/Tween 80). Is that the gift you want to give your precious baby? Think before you vaccinate. Don't rely on government propaganda. Do your research. This is your baby's life.

Happy Campers!

As I write, it's raining, raining, raining here in Cumbria, and the furthest thing from most people's thoughts would be The Mother magazine's annual camp next year. This is a reminder though, that it's being held a few months earlier next year ~ at the end of May/early June, rather than the end of August. You can download further information and a booking form from the magazine website www.themothermagazine.co.uk

We won't be taking last minute bookings for this camp, so if you intend to come please don't leave your booking form too late.. You can secure your family's place with a deposit.

The camp is held in beautiful North Yorkshire. I hope to see you there. It's a great way to meet like minded families, and to forge beautiful friendships.

Giving The Mother for Christmas

If The Mother magazine has touched your life, and you'd like to give a subscription under the Christmas tree next month, then contact us to set up your friend or relative's subscription.

Did you know you can pay a subscription by monthly standing order? So, for £2 a month (for 12 months) you can give a present that lasts a whole year (and the effects last a lifetime).

If you've got a friend overseas, you can also pay their sub by standing order. For example, a sub outside Europe to anywhere in the world would be £2.75 a month. You need a UK bank account to make payments. Of course, you can always pay in full, or for half a year. Visit our website for details, or email/phone us for our bank details to set up your payments.

Blessings, Veronika

children and tv viewing

Is Dora the Explorer babysitting your children this morning?

Isn’t it so tempting to just pop the children in front of the ‘idiot box’ (called that for a very good reason) for a few minutes so you can get the dishes done, make a phone call, hang the washing, or brush your teeth in peace? What harm can it do?

Before tv was invented, parents would tell their children stories. Storytelling opens up the majority of neural fields in the brain, whereas tv closes them down.

We may think that just a half hour day will be fine, but what’s clear is that many behavioural difficulties rest solely on the viewing of tv (which includes dvds and videos). When children watch television, their behaviour changes (not for the better). If a mother is looking to make her life easier, then removing tv will help her to achieve this as she’ll be reducing the stimulus which triggers tantrums and other difficulties. Children who watch tv need more entertaining afterwards than children who don’t.

While it’s common for parents to believe that a show like Dora the Explorer couldn’t possibly harm their child, what they’re not seeing is the arresting of their child’s development. It’s a form of violence we inflict on our children, and it has no place in the early years of childhood. Young children who watch tv are severely compromised. As holistic parents, we must take steps to ensure our children are protected from such violations.

If children are to watch tv, I don’t recommend introducing it at all until well after 8 or 9 years of age, and then, as a rare, supervised FAMILY ‘treat’, not a daily staple consumed without parental supervision. Very little is known by most people about the deleterious effects of tv on the neural pathways. This is one aspect of tv viewing. Some parents are conscious of the content of programmes. Remember, when your children watch television, you’ve left their care and nourishment in the hands of a stranger. What are they teaching your child?

For further reading, see Set Free Childhood by Martin Large, and Evolution’s End by Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Yin and Yang

Veronika Robinson, editor of The Mother magazine writes:

Self knowledge is the key to a happy and harmonious marital relationship. How many people can say they truly know themselves? We think we do. Our ego tells us we do, but then ‘it’ would! The ego has a vested interest in believing it knows everything. It stops us searching for the truth lest we give it the boot. Given that the real home of any child is the relationship between the parents, isn’t it worth delving into our inner self and healing our wounded inner child so that we can parent more effectively, lovingly and openly?

Our children learn everything about relationships from the example we give them. Do you choose to show them a marriage based on love, compassion, respect and genuine affection? The marital relationship is seldom given the attention it deserves during discussions on holistic parenting, and yet it’s the foundation of every thing we do. (This includes parents who are no longer cohabitating with their partner, whether through divorce or death ~ and how we honour and acknowledge the genetic legacy that was given to our children).

Our culture doesn’t have an archetype for the ideal marriage/lovers, and it’s because of this that many people struggle in their marriage. They have no vision of how it can be, just the regurgitation of the cultural message that ‘relationships are hard work’. I don’t believe they need to be. The ‘work’ exists externally, that is, in the relationship, because we haven’t tended to our inner work. The inner ‘demons’ come out to sabotage the relationship, yet in reality they’re angels, because they’re asking you to live a higher version of yourself; to let go of anything that’s not wholly authentic.


It’s only if you don’t know yourself, and are constantly projecting infantile needs and responses onto the other, that a marital relationship becomes a war zone (including the Cold War). We heal, when we stop blaming our partner, and go inside.


Violence in a marriage isn’t just the obvious form of domestic violence. It’s enacted in subtle ways, such as sarcasm, lack of physical affection outside of sex, not taking an interest in the day to day emotional life of your partner and delivering careless or stinging comments.


Scenario: You yell at your wife in public, with no regard to how she might feel being spoken to like that at any time, let alone in front of strangers and friends.
Scenario: you’ve been ill all day, and at home on your own with little children. Does your partner come home and take an interest in you and the children? Does he express genuine concern for your state, and show delight when greeting his offspring?


Do you ask him after each work day how his day has been, and why was it like that? Have you ever really taken the time and INTEREST to discover his vision for life? Do you give him the space to open up? It’s hard for a man to share
himself ~ emotionally ~ if a woman is always harping on at him. She needs to be consistently loving, caring, protective and nurturing for a relationship to truly blossom.


Do you take the time to ‘connect’, emotionally, physically and intellectually? If your daily interactions were recorded, would you feel comfortable with others hearing the way you’ve spoken to your partner? Are your words sacred or stinging? Do your actions nurture and nourish? Do they invite intimacy, emotional or physical? Many people aren’t even aware of how destructive their words and actions (or inactions) are, and how they either add to the bank of trust, intimacy, love and affection, or lead to demoralising and destructive debt.


Violence is seen in the erosion of common courtesy, care, kindness, respect, gentleness and support for each other’s interests. It’s become so very common, that we see this habitual violence as ‘normal’, as just the way marriage is.


There are four people in any marriage. There are the two we’re conscious of: me and you, and our inner selves. Culture teaches us about reward and punishment. This becomes the basis of all relationships.


What about renewal? What about rebirth? Starting over and discovering who you are, what makes you tick, what you need to heal? EVERYTHING rests on this. Children are at the mercy of parents, and how sad this is when we project our stuff onto them. How toxic. Not much point in feeding your kids a sugar free, organic diet if you daily feed them a marital relationship based on anger, violent communication (in all its forms) and disinterest. Many people choose to walk away from marriages, believing that there’s a problem with their partner, rather than looking within themselves.


To begin healing your relationship, find out what the glue is that holds you together, and devote time each day to nourishing this. Ideally, the relationship isn’t just based on something as temporal as lust.

Mentoring sessions available again

Just a note to say I'm now available for phone mentoring sessions again ~ 15 minutes, 1/2 hour or one hour sessions can be purchased.

I can be flexible to your needs, and in most cases can do phone calls at evenings or Saturdays, as well as weekdays.

What are mentoring sessions for? People who want to explore topics in their lives for which they feel they have no other person to discuss issues with, particularly in relation to attachment parenting/The Continuum Concept: conscious conception, peaceful pregnancy, gentle and ecstatic birth, lotus birth, birth healing, on-cue breastfeeding, full term breastfeeding, natural immunity, vaccine awareness, the family bed, baby wearing, children's behaviour (such as biting, hitting), human scale education, marital harmony (disharmony) ~ to name just a few!

Please visit:

www.veronikarobinson.com