The message boards here at MotherSpirit serve as a place for our small community to discuss issues near and dear to our hearts, including discussion on the various articles, links, topics included in the content of the MotherSpirit website. It is also a place to get to know each other and talk about issues in our daily lives as parents, mothers, fathers, spouses, people.  This community was created to serve a small but growing population of parents who are conscious. With conscious parenting comes a few things that are non-negotiable: a child's right to mother's milk, a child's right to all their natural body parts, a child's right to be loved at all times and not spanked, left to cry it out, neglected or otherwise emotionally or physically disrespected.

While we realize that some people might believe in *most* of the MotherSpirit philosophy but falter on a few of our non-negotiable issues, we feel these people might be better off at another website. Here at MotherSpirit we choose to surround ourselves with others who agree that these standards are the best way to parent, and we are not open to discussion that would imply other parenting and feeding methods are equal to or better than these. Generally, no one advocating other practices will be accepted here.

We have all made mistakes and evolved as parents along the way. If you have participated in any of the aforementioned behaviours but are looking for a better way, we would love for you to stick around; however, debating, justifying or defending the alternate behaviour is not something that is tolerated at this site.

If you still feel the MotherSpirit community is for you, please select to continue. If not, we wish you well in your journey through parenthood.