I wanted to thank you for two articles in your March–April 2009 issue, laura ulrich’s “Home Is Where the Job Is” and Cynthia lair’s “Fresh from the Fields.” I am a work-at-home mom who manages our family’s pastured-poultry farm business. We raise free-range pastured chickens and turkeys and sell direct to customers in our area. ulrich’s article really helped me feel more confident about the roles I have as mother, businessperson, and farmer.
MELISSA FISCHBACH
Wild Hollow Farm, Ashland, Wisconsin
LOVE LETTERS
Recently, I had to decide whether or not to renew my subscription. I am an Australian married to a Japanese man living in Japan. Although I have loved receiving Mothering for the past six years, my daughter and son are getting bigger. I wondered if I really needed a magazine that is mostly about babies, and American babies at that.
Then I started reading my March– April 2009 issue and had no doubts about renewing. Nancy Meltzoff’s article, “Jumping Off Cliffs,” was inspirational. I found more relevant, motivating, thought-provoking, reassuring words on every page.
Then I realized: Even the baby stuff is still interesting, because it’s not just the standard infobites you find in other parenting publications; and inspiration isn’t dependent on nationality.
SUE IRIE
Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan
When I was pregnant, my midwife gave me a stack of Mothering magazines. It was love at first read. Your articles helped to support, confirm, and inform a multitude of the decisions I made regarding my
pregnancy, my baby’s birth, and the way I am choosing to parent. You affirmed that an unmedicated homebirth was completely possible and safe. You showed me how to wear my baby without buying an expensive sling I couldn’t afford. You assured me that sleeping with her was the right thing to do! You gave me incredibly informative and intelligently written articles citing research to help me make decisions regarding vaccinations. You let me know I wasn’t crazy or freakish to want to nurse my baby well into toddlerhood. You helped me to feel like I was and am part of a community of like-minded parents. Here is a photo of my 19-month- old, Halaylah, wearing her own baby in what she dubbed a “baby pocket.”
SYDNEY LEWIS
Langhorne, Pennsylvania
I cyberstumbled onto your website about two years ago as a newlywed; what I saw seemed too good to be real, and right up my alley. Then I became pregnant. My husband and I decided
Mothering celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one’s best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential of parents and children. As a readers’ magazine, we recognize parents as the experts and wish to provide truly helpful information on which parents can base informed
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choices. Mothering is both a fierce advocate of the needs and rights of the child and a gentle supporter of the parents, and we encourage decision making that considers the needs of all members of the family. We explore the realities of human relationships in the family setting, recognizing that raising the heirs of our civilization well is the prerequisite of a healthy society.
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