Comments on: A Little Light Birth Activism http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/11/a-little-light-birth-activism/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:08:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Molly Paryani http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/11/a-little-light-birth-activism/#comment-48426 Molly Paryani Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:23:17 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=84#comment-48426 Hey - I found this post by googling "homebirth activism" - I wanted some banners or a website or something that said HEY, HOMEBIRTHING IS NOT DANGEROUS CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD... with statistics .... or something. Anyway, I read this post and seriously, just like Deb, I had an answer to your question, immediately: Q: How did so much disinformation, disempowerment, and downright FUD get out there in the world? A: Public Schools!!! Honestly, my own personal path to empowerment didn't start until I started researching homeschooling. And when I realized I didn't need permission to teach my own, I realized I didn't need permission for a whole lot more! INCLUDING researching information and finding my own answers to every sort of question, even medical ones! :) Hey - I found this post by googling “homebirth activism” - I wanted some banners or a website or something that said HEY, HOMEBIRTHING IS NOT DANGEROUS CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD… with statistics …. or something. Anyway, I read this post and seriously, just like Deb, I had an answer to your question, immediately:

Q: How did so much disinformation, disempowerment, and downright FUD get out there in the world?

A: Public Schools!!!

Honestly, my own personal path to empowerment didn’t start until I started researching homeschooling. And when I realized I didn’t need permission to teach my own, I realized I didn’t need permission for a whole lot more!

INCLUDING researching information and finding my own answers to every sort of question, even medical ones! :)

]]> By: Deb http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/11/a-little-light-birth-activism/#comment-284 Deb Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:23:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=84#comment-284 Rock on, As you know I am going thru something similiar with my search through the HMO's offerings of Preferred Providers that filter all other care. No one feels I will "be comfortable" with a non vacced kids in their practice and I just need a friggen speech referral so have decided to lie and go see one just to get it. Because I am tired.....and time's a wastin on the speech issue. Again you are a walking billboard for homeschooling!! Rock on,
As you know I am going thru something similiar with my search through the HMO’s offerings of Preferred Providers that filter all other care. No one feels I will “be comfortable” with a non vacced kids in their practice and I just need a friggen speech referral so have decided to lie and go see one just to get it. Because I am tired…..and time’s a wastin on the speech issue.

Again you are a walking billboard for homeschooling!!

]]> By: Mama Chaos http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/11/a-little-light-birth-activism/#comment-283 Mama Chaos Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:10:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=84#comment-283 *laughs* I saw a shirt once that said "Don't call me lucky, call me educated" and below that in smaller letters something about homebirths. *laughs* I saw a shirt once that said “Don’t call me lucky, call me educated” and below that in smaller letters something about homebirths.

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