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Babywearing at festivals is way easier than lugging a buggy through mud and crowds. Here are our favourite designs for hitting the fields this summer.

Sometimes we can be so busy with our jobs, and our personal goals, and changing the world, that we have very little time to spend with our kids.

Many parents tell me they're too tired and busy to play with their kids. Mothers, especially, often see play as an onerous task on an already endless to-do list says Dr. Laura Markham.

From the infectious fun of side-splitting laughter to the exuberance of an impromptu pillow fight, infusing a spirit of joy and playfulness into your home nurtures your family like little else says Dr. Laura Markham

However you do it, get your kids outside. They need to reconnect with the world. If they are indoors, insulated from the outside world, they become lazy and it's not healthy for communities.

We tapped the wisdom of Annie Francis, midwife and homebirth advocate - she offers three ways to have the birth you choose

Sisters Bethany Jaroussie and Osyth Sanders set up Bimble and make leather mocassins,which are bright and cheery and great for kids’ feet

Vivien Sabel shows how to develop your very own early communication system with your newborn

Christine Gross-Loh tells Hannah Hiles why you don’t need to resign yourself to years of changing nappies

We invite our readers to ask a natural therapist their burning questions. Gemma Hurditch is our expert for this issue, for the College of Naturopathic Medicine