News & Notes
- Memoriam: Amma offers sincere condolences to the family and joins women and men of the world in mourning the preventable death of Savita Halappanavar, denied an abortion in Ireland. Politicians in US threaten to tighten restrictions on abortion, undermining the meaning of pro-life, as Thomas Friedman eloquently wrote in “Why I am Pro-Life.”
- Shock and outrage are too bland responses to the shooting in Newton, 20 years after a college shooting in MA and too many in between. Amma joins those demanding gun control as well as public health support for those with mental illness and their families.
- Defense against the dark arts: George Monbiot’s priceless piece on the 12th day of Christmas.
- You already knew about the joy of cardboard boxes. How about cardboard Hogwarts?
- We often ask, what is learning? Now let us ask, what is Slow Learning?
- Amma’s recommended reading lists are here: READING
- Amma spoke up at the World Breastfeeding Conference in Delhi this December.
- Registration is open for the first all-India Homeschoolers’ Conference in Khandala, 28 Feb – 4 March.
- Jared Diamond on Best Practices in Child Rearing Newsweek, 17 December 2012.
