Nourishing a Growing Family

My thoughts and reflections on raising a natural family in the modern world … inspired by personal experiences, daily life, and others’ writings and reflections.

'Children's Health' Articles

Raw Milk

September 21st, 2007

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For the past 18 months, we have been exclusively drinking local organic raw milk. While my husband gew up milking his family cow and drank fresh raw milk daily as a young teenager, I had only ever had the plastic-jug-pasturized and homoginized stuff sold under the lable "Vitamin D Milk." ... MORE...

Cod Liver Oil: Start Young!

June 26th, 2007

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Family and friends over for a visit are amazed by the ease in which our young children take their cod liver oil-- they are shocked to hear the children come up to us after the evening meal and remind their father excitedly, "Oil time! Oil time!" Their exuberance matches that ... MORE...

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nour·ish (nûrsh, nr-)
  1. To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
  2. To foster the development of; promote: “Athens was an imperial city, nourished by the tribute of subjects” (V. Gordon Childe).
  3. To keep alive; maintain: nourish a hope.

Originating from Latin Nutrire which means to feed or suckle

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