Tia Leschke

> Yay! that's just what I'm looking for!
> And having been on this list now for less than 24 hours (wow, there's a
lot of mail!!), I have to say I feel really excited and confident that being
here will help meet my needs for companionship, support, challenge, growth,
humour, and acceptance.

As others have said, it's not usually this busy.
>
> Do you do intros here? Here's mine: I'm ingrid (40), live with my French
partner (44) and three children (ds 17yo, ds 5.5yo and dd 17 months) on an
island in British Columbia, Canada. WE are a trilingual/multicultural family
(French, German, English). My younger son was just offically registered this
year for the first time as a "homeschooler" --i'm grateful for the freedom
in this province which means no testing, evalutions or interference
whatsoever.

So welcome Ingrid (on Saltspring still?) from Tia in Sooke. <g> I think we
spoke on the phone once when I was still the subscription person for the
Victoria newsletter.
>
>
> Though I find myself having less and less to write these days too,
language and writing are my medium. I work at home as a freelance writer and
have written and self-published a book on Natural Infant Hygiene (or
Elimination Communication--both phrases I coined to refer to an age-old
concept) about tuning in to and meeting an infant's elimination needs
without relying on diapers. (I have a website at www.natural-wisdom.com )

Hey! My daughter is doing this with her youngest. She isn't catching all
of them, but she's keeping him much drier with fewer diapers than the
others. She's starting to recognize his signals.
Tia

Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry

<<As others have said, it's not usually this busy.

Oh yeah? Hasn't slowed down yet! :-)

<So welcome Ingrid (on Saltspring still?) from Tia in Sooke. <g> I think we
spoke on the phone once when I was still the subscription person for the
Victoria newsletter.

Yes we did :-). I've been thinking about checking in with the victoria crowd some day again. I edit the Saltspring homelearners newsletter now...

<<Hey! My daughter is doing this with her youngest. She isn't catching all
of them, but she's keeping him much drier with fewer diapers than the
others. She's starting to recognize his signals.

Wow, that is so cool! I love just "bumping" into people who are practicing natural infant hygiene. And i'm amazed at the quick grass-roots way it is growing. Did she learn about it from my book?

Are you still involved in victoria? still have children at home?

warmly,
ingrid


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Tia Leschke

>
> <So welcome Ingrid (on Saltspring still?) from Tia in Sooke. <g> I think
we
> spoke on the phone once when I was still the subscription person for the
> Victoria newsletter.
>
> Yes we did :-). I've been thinking about checking in with the victoria
crowd some day again. I edit the Saltspring homelearners newsletter now...

I just took over as editor of the Victoria newsletter. <g> We don't do
many activities as my son decided somewhere along the way that homeschoolers
are "dumb". There are none his age out here (at least that he can relate to
at all) and most of his friends are his sports buddies. He *is* taking a
film course for homelearners. There's a boy from Mayne Island in his class.
Do you know Adam Iredale Gray?
>
> <<Hey! My daughter is doing this with her youngest. She isn't catching
all
> of them, but she's keeping him much drier with fewer diapers than the
> others. She's starting to recognize his signals.
>
> Wow, that is so cool! I love just "bumping" into people who are practicing
natural infant hygiene. And i'm amazed at the quick grass-roots way it is
growing. Did she learn about it from my book?

I'm not sure where she learned about it, probably on one of her unassisted
birth lists, but she's using your book. She's also on a list that I think
she said you were on. Her name is Heather and has Skye, Kaelin, and Sasha.
>
> Are you still involved in victoria? still have children at home? Yes and
yes, just the one 15 year old boy.
Cheers,
Tia