NOVA Families for Natural Living

NOVA Families for Natural Living

I won’t try to define nat­ural fam­ily liv­ing myself. The group’s descrip­tion on yahoo is as follows:

“Northern Virginia’s Families for Natural Living is an orga­ni­za­tion of like-minded fam­i­lies who joined together to sup­port each other in explor­ing nat­ural alter­na­tives for them­selves and their fam­i­lies. We offer sup­port and edu­ca­tion on top­ics such as nutri­tion, birth options, attach­ment par­ent­ing, vac­ci­na­tions, alter­na­tive health choices, con­cern for the envi­ron­ment and much more!”

I con­sider myself a hybrid mom with one foot set firmly in the nat­ural par­ent­ing arena and the other still planted in a more main­stream par­ent­ing model. I gen­er­ally shy away from push­ing my alter­na­tive ideas on oth­ers, but ever since last week’s Oprah there seems to be a lot of buzz about vac­cines within moms groups on both sides of this fence. I find myself read­ing the emails from my local groups, and think­ing many folks would ben­e­fit from the per­spec­tive this group has to offer on vac­ci­na­tions. And if you are like me and some­times feel alone in cloth dia­per­ing, nurs­ing past 12 months, delaying-preschool, or even choos­ing a com­post bin and a CSA you will wel­come the wis­dom and encour­age­ment shared by the NOVA Families for Natural Living on many topics.