Can Someone Tell Me .....

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Registered: 12-24-2006
Can Someone Tell Me .....
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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 4:07am

What is a crunchymama? I'd never heard the term until last week, and then I heard it once, but still couldn't figure it out!

Thanks,
zz

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Registered: 03-27-2005
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 8:39am

Crunchy mama: Mother who supports homebirth, breastfeeding, baby wearing, cloth diapering, co-sleeping, gentle discipline, etc. Tends to fall into the Granola category as well.

Granola: An adjective used to describe people who are environmentally aware, open-minded, left-winged, socially aware and active, anti-oppressive/discrimin atory with an organic and natural emphasis on living, who will usually refrain from consuming or using anything containing animals and animal by-products (for health and/or environmental reasons), as well as limit consumption of what he or she does consume, as granola people are usually concerned about wasting resources. Usually buy only fair-trade goods and refrain from buying from large corporations, as most exploit the environment as well as their workers, which goes against granola core values.

There are variying degress of folks who fall into a granola category. The question can be asked How "crunchy" are you? In terms of how much you incorperate the granola lifestyle.

Hope this helps
stacy

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Registered: 07-21-2006
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 1:02pm

Wow! Now I learned something, too!
Thanks for sharing!

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Registered: 12-24-2006
Wed, 04-04-2007 - 2:50pm

Thanks.

I should probably be a little "crunchier", especially as it relates to the enviroment!

zz

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Registered: 11-13-2004
Thu, 04-05-2007 - 8:45am
Interesting.
I learned something new also!
I think we used to call them "Earth Women".. LOL
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 04-06-2007 - 8:30am

LOL when I first read the question, first thing that came to my mind was... my dd couldn't say the word country when she was younger, so Country Music was known as Crunchy Music... my first thought was crunchy mama = country mama! Kinda figured my answer was wrong though ;-p