Please note that Future Families is taking a break from the monthly newsletter and events in 2010 so that our volunteers can focus on family priorities. This website remains as a valuable resource for links, articles, practitioners etc.
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Future Families is a unique not for profit community association commenced in March 2007 by a group of Adelaide (South Australia) mums.
We are a 'one-stop-shop' offering products, services, practitioners, information and support for parents regarding:
Gentle, Natural Birthing
Conscious Parenting
Natural Health and Wellness
Chemical Free, Sustainable Living
This website provides a vast array of information and resources directly via downloads and links.
Who may benefit from Future Families?
Anyone choosing conscious parenting! That is anyone wishing to raise their children with the greatest of kindness and respect.
Parents seeking alternative choices to a highly medicated approach to birthing and wellness.
Parents seeking to understand children's developmental needs and how they can appropriately respond to support their children's development.
Parents who see children as spiritual, emotional and mental beings to be nurtured with love, attention and kindness - and healthy food!
Parents seeking alternative assistance for childhood problems such as:
* Learning difficulties
* Allergies
* ADHD / ADD / Autism
* Special needs children
Parents wishing to raise healthy, happy adults.
See Conscious Parenting / Family Wellness Concepts for examples of our principles and parenting styles.
Download our DL flyer for printing / distribution. (Thankyou to PrintMint for printing our flyers on recycled paper with vegetable based inks - www.printmint.com.au)
Download our Manifesto document Future Families Manifesto.
Email Heidi to join our mailing list.
The Alliance for Transformation the Lives of Children – co-founded by Pam Leo (www.atlc.org) has done amazing work to reveal research and provide extensive guidelines on this nature of parenting.
We consider their Blueprint of Principles and Actions to be an invaluable resource for every parent, midwife, doctor, child care worker and politician – in America - and here in Australia. Download this document aTLC Blueprint.