Healthy Parenting

Finding Local Support

Online support is wonderful, but there's nothing like connecting in real life to other mamas (and dads) who have similar beliefs. Even in this AP/Alternative parenting world, we all vary so much in the choices we make for our families but there's a special bond that is nice to share with likeminded souls.

I won't be able to work on this for a while but keep an eye out for;

http://www.apmeetup.com

A couple obvious places to start are:

http://www.lalecheleague.com/WebIndex.html
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/contact.shtml

Here are a few online resources to check out:

APIs Group Listing
http://www.attachmentparenting.org

The Natural Child's directory
http://www.naturalchild.org/directory/

Families for Natural Living (associated with Peggy O'Mara)
http://fnl.atendesigngroup.com/ONSITE/render.php?currentObjId=3271#

Mothering.com's Find Your Tribe area
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Search Yahoo Groups for local support groups
http://groups.yahoo.com

Search MSN Groups
http://groups.msn.com/

Natural Family Online Boards - Find local support
http://www.naturalfamilyonline.com/forum/

Holistic Mom's Network - chapters
http://home.homewebs.com/holisticmoms/index.cfm/products

Matching Moms - some AP listings
http://www.matchingmoms.org/

Child Play...more ideas, not really AP but you might find something
http://www.childavenue.com/pages/playgroups_pages/playgroups.html

Vegetarian Playgroups
http://www.vegfamily.com/playgroups/

Online Playgroup - Currently only lists the API and Nurture by Nature sites under AP
http://www.onlineplaygroup.com

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