Posted in Family life, Journalism, tagged Cuttings, Green Parent, home birth, Pregnancy on July 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The August/ September edition of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting authors and experts.
I spoke to doula and home birth expert Natalie Meddings about why choosing a home birth can be a “common sense” decision for many women.
You can read the feature here (PDF).
Don’t forget, you can get £5 off a subscription to The Green Parent when you use my code HHILES. More details here.
Posted in Books, Family life, Journalism, tagged Cuttings, Green Parent, Parenting on March 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The April / May edition of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting authors and experts.
I spoke to Rebecca Eanes, who has more than 1million fans on her Facebook page, about her latest release The Positive Parenting Workbook and how moving away from traditional discipline can strengthen and improve family relationships.
We can begin the process of real change rather than staying stuck in old patterns that are limiting us or causing our families to suffer. I know of no better starting point than a mirror.
You can read the feature here (PDF).
Don’t forget, you can get £5 off a subscription to The Green Parent when you use my code HHILES. More details here.
Posted in Books, Family life, Green living, Journalism, Social media, tagged Cuttings, Digital detox, Green Parent, Inspiration, Society, Technology on January 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The February / March edition of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting authors and experts.
I had a very entertaining chat with Mark Ellis, author of Digitox: How To Find A Healthy Balance For Your Family’s Digital Diet, who told me all about his family’s digital detox and tech-free Sundays – and left me feeling quite challenged about my own habits!
Parents have to do the heavy lifting and break their own addiction first. There’s no point telling children they can’t have technology on Sundays if you don’t apply it to yourself as well.
You can read the feature here (PDF).
Don’t forget, you can get £5 off a subscription to The Green Parent when you use my code HHILES. More details here.
Posted in Books, Family life, Health, Journalism, tagged Breastfeeding, Cuttings, Green Parent, Society on November 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The December / January edition of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting authors and experts.
I spoke to Dr Amy Brown, an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences at Swansea University, about her book Breastfeeding Uncovered: Who really decides how we feed our babies? and how society is undermining women’s confidence in their ability to breastfeed.
I can’t understand why we happily drink cow’s milk, which comes from another species, but are so disgusted by breastfeeding. People sit in coffee shops pouring cow’s milk into their drinks while criticising someone for breastfeeding at the next table. It’s messed up.
You can read the feature here (PDF).
Don’t forget, you can get £5 off a subscription to The Green Parent when you use my code HHILES. More details here.
Posted in Books, Family life, Journalism, tagged Cuttings, Green Parent, Inspiration, Travel on September 19, 2017| 2 Comments »
The October/ November edition of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting authors and experts.
I spoke to writer, blogger and podcaster Tsh Oxenreider, founder of The Art of Simple, about her book At Home In The World and she gave me her top tips for travelling the globe with children.
There were times on the trip when Kyle and I would be frustrated that the kids weren’t amazed at everything, and we realised that when everything is awesome, nothing is awesome.
We need that down time in-between to just live life. We don’t need to have adventures all the time. This was a good lesson for me.
Full disclosure: I am a big fan of Tsh and have been for many years, so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to speak with her!
You can read the feature here (PDF)
Don’t forget, you can get £5 off a subscription to The Green Parent when you use my code HHILES. More details here.
