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Living Simply with Kids

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This comes from the latest MSA Seed Sampler ezine.

Living Simply with Kids

In certain Christian circles, simplicity is deemed a high virtue of a faithful life. I did an interview with a group of ultra-cool college students who live so simply, they get their food from dumpsters. That’s all very well for single college students. What happens when kids come along?

I don’t have kids of my own. But several of my friends do, and I get to regularly observe the intentionality it takes to live into values that are different from the values of the surrounding culture. And all I can say is: this lifestyle is not for the faint of heart.

This issue of the Seed Sampler is a celebration of living simply with kids. It serves to recognize intentional parents and provide resources to help you and your family live more simply, too. Included here are lessons learned from a Montana vacation and a year in Denmark, and analysis of children growing up in a consumeristic world, and an interview with a simple-living kid named Catie. Also, at the bottom is a list of resources, including a new blog from MSA team member Ricci Kilmer called The Revolution Starts At Home.

Enjoy,

Judy Naegeli

Seed Sampler coordinator


Mark your calendar: Living Simply with Kids Workshop

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The Revolution Starts at Home: Living Simply with Kids

This will the the first in a series of workshops and conversations related to homegrown revolution, alternative living, sustainability, cultural awareness, social justice and other holy mischievous act of resistance and creativity.

For those of us trying to live an intentional Christian life kids can be both and inspiration and a frustration. We want to live out an alternate script from what society has written for us but it often seems like when it comes to our kids we’re on our own and have to start from scratch (which of course we don’t have time for, we’re parents!)

In this conversation we will be exploring together simplicity, sustainibility, whole-life faith, justice, life-long learning, and healthy parenting. And discovering how these issues affect the way we live with our kids and in the greater community.

Facilitated by Ricci Kilmer & Eliacín Rosario-Cruz

Hosted by Mustard Seed Associates and Mustard Seed House

  • When? October 11th, 2008 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  • $10 Donation | Register online
  • Soup and bread lunch provided.
  • Please come and bring a snack to share and your own drinks.

Calling 911 for Gabrielito

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Gabrielito is my 18 month old son. He was born on Christmas Day 2006. He was born with a respiratory problem and had to be resucitated at the moment of birth and was taken by ambulance to the NICU at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. An unforgetful moment.

Last night we had another tense parent episode. He have been having a fever between 101-104 for almost all day. At 5:30 PM Gabrielito went into febrile convulsions. The episode was horrendous for us as inexperience parent. We called 911 and he was taken to the ER. There we learned that febrile convulsions occur in young children when there is a rapid increase in their body temperature. It affects up to 1 in 20 children between the ages of one and four but can affect children between six months and about five years old. But no matter how common it might be, it is really concerning and terrifying to see your child go through the seizures.

He is doing a bit better now, but he still feverish so we need to keep our eyes on him.