From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Furnis-- the doll for every child

October 30, 2008

Due to the vari­ety of races in our house­hold and lives, I wanted to find my son a doll that would bet­ter rep­re­sent a side of his race that is less promi­nent. We do not try to iso­late our­selves, but when I look around. Most of our friends are white. Some are black, don’t get […]

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Pedipeds Shoes - Review and Giveaway!

October 28, 2008

Until he was get­ting around on his feet rather than his knees, my son only wore shoes on spe­cial occa­sions. In fact, he’s the only bare­foot raga­muf­fin in our big fam­ily photo from last Christ­mas. Appar­ently his cousins have more refined sar­to­r­ial tastes. But once he started cruis­ing, I saw why my friends sang the […]

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Holztiger wooden toys

October 26, 2008

Holztiger is a Ger­man toy com­pany that makes brightly col­ored, hand-carved, hand-painted ani­mal fig­urines.  There are hun­dreds of ani­mals to choose from, many avail­able in var­ied poses, so your child can have a herd of cows, a clow­der of cats, or a gag­gle of geese.  There are over a dozen trees, a barn­yard, and even […]

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More on attachment parenting

October 24, 2008

I’ve made my guest blog­ging debut over on the Attach­ment Par­ent­ing Inter­na­tional blog, API Speaks, writ­ing about What Pres­ence Means to Me.  A pre­view: I can’t count the num­ber of times that some­one has told me that I need to get out of the house with­out my son.  I’ve been told to get a regular […]

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Glueckskaefer wooden puzzles

October 20, 2008

Some­thing else I ran across in Nikolai-Eck dur­ing my visit to Leipzig, were Glück­skäfer nest­ing toys.  These are beau­ti­ful, Ger­man pro­duced, heir­loom qual­ity, wooden nest­ing puz­zles.  Glück­skäfer has been in busi­ness for over 60 years and believes in pro­duc­ing qual­ity over quan­tity.  For Ger­man speak­ers, they’re avail­able from the Glück­skäfer web­site in Ger­many.  They’re also […]

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Pregnant in Germany

October 17, 2008

Now that I am finally an “Inter­na­tional Mama,” and not just a soon-to-be-mama, I finally feel qual­i­fied to add my 2 cents to the blog! Our girl arrived almost five weeks ago and is already won­der­ing where her sausage and beer are (or at least, that’s how I inter­pret her cry­ing). Hav­ing never been pregnant […]

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Introducing our Worldwide Store Directory

October 17, 2008

We’ve got a new fea­ture here at Mamas World­wide. If you look under Resources > Store Direc­tory, you will find a list of online shops, orga­nized by where they ship to. It’s just in the begin­ning phases, and is heav­ily stacked toward shops ship­ping to Europe/Germany (since I just went through my book­marks), which is […]

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Book Review: Good Nights

October 16, 2008

While I’m not work­ing towards becom­ing a group leader for an Attach­ment Par­ent­ing Inter­na­tional Sup­port Group (at least not until I have a lot more par­ent­ing expe­ri­ence), I did find their required read­ing list inter­est­ing and imme­di­ately picked a book that I want to read from each of the cat­e­gories.  I ordered a cou­ple of […]

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Janoschik Toys

October 14, 2008

Last week, I found the most amaz­ing toys in a reli­gious run shop, Nikolai-Eck, at Niko­laikirch­hof in Leipzig (if you’re in the area, def­i­nitely pay it a visit). I’ll post about them over the next few days. First up is Janoschik Toys (Ger­man site, Eng­lish site). These are seri­ously cute wooden toys in the shapes […]

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How "socialism" helps me give my child presence

October 12, 2008

In addi­tion to being Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month, it’s also Attach­ment Par­ent­ing month. The theme of this year’s Attach­ment Par­ent­ing month is “Giv­ing our Chil­dren Pres­ence.” API Speaks, the blog of Attach­ment Par­ent­ing Inter­na­tional, is hold­ing a blog car­ni­val of pres­ence to bring aware­ness to how we can give our chil­dren our pres­ence in the […]

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