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Summer 2023
Fostering: It’s Still Bananas
Fostering: It’s Still Bananas Foster Momma Kiki shares her journey as a new foster parent and all that comes with caring for children who have experienced more than most of us ever will. By Mama KikiA new year, a new beginning—that was my hope when the clock struck...
Cover Interview Q&A – Susanna Maurice
Meet the Tumbleweeds Magazine, Summer 2023 cover mom - Susanna Maurice - and her newborn baby (pictured at six days old!), Simone. Tumbleweeds Mag: What's your birth story? Susanna: Simone came 10 days before her due date. She was a planned home birth with our...
Sweet Dreams: An Infant Sleep Guide for Parents
Sweet Dreams: An Infant Sleep Guide for Parents Creating a safe sleep environment for your baby By Rach RalyaWhether you’re still pregnant or a new parent, you might be spending time thinking about how you’ll get your baby to sleep, among other challenges new parents...
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OBGYN, Pregnancy Care, Labor and Delivery Hospitals CHRISTUS ST. VINCENT Our labor and delivery team is trained and educated in progressive labor and support techniques to ensure you have a pleasant birthing experience. We offer a variety of birthing plans that...
Babies, Books, and Math Make Three
Babies, Books, and Math Make Three Paths to numeracy through books for infants and toddlers By Judy ReinhartzSchool is not the only place to learn math. Learning begins during the earliest days, weeks, and months of our lives. Infants and toddlers take in everything...
It’s Time for the Dad Talk
It's Time for the Dad Talk Considering family systems and whether dads belong By Johnny Wilson“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.” —Margaret Mead “The most important task of any civilization is to teach its young men how to be fathers” That...
Es hora para hablar de los papás
Es hora para hablar de los papás Examinar los sistemas familiares y si los papás pertenecen a ellos o no By Johnny Wilson Traducción por Flor de María Oliva “Los padres son necesidades biológicas, pero accidentes sociales”. — Margaret Mead “La mayor tarea de cualquier...
Why Mothers Need Matrescence
Why Mothers Need Matrescence A developmental approach to maternal mental health By Allison DavisWhen I became a mother I was an adolescent psychotherapist supporting young people in the often disorienting process of becoming an adult. I understood adolescence as a...
Your Family’s Nature Activities Await
Your Family’s Nature Activities Await Visit the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Wildlife Center for a hike, picnic, or new science adventure By Meghan BakerAs the temperatures rise, wildflowers bloom, and monsoon clouds gather on the horizon, Northern New Mexico...
My Life in Scouting
My Life in Scouting By Lucas Greene I have been a member of the scouting organization since I was six years old. I joined as a tiger in cub scouts, and now I am a star scout at 17. After spending more than half my life in scouting, I thought other people should...
Tumbleweeds Magazine Wins Big at New Mexico Press Women
Tumbleweeds entered several articles and designs in the state-level tier of the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest. Tumbleweeds Magazine brought home three first-place awards: Specialty Articles in Government and Politics (“Lawmakers Can Put...
New Presbyterian Medical Services Center in South Santa Fe Set to Open in September
Scheduled to open in September, Presbyterian Medical Services’ new Santa Fe Family Health Center will open its doors across from Presbyterian Healthcare’s Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center on the southside of Santa Fe. The two separate Presbyterian entities are...
It’s Time for Parents and Community Members to Speak Up
In April 2023, a middle high student brought a gun to Turquoise Trail Charter School. The school was locked down, and later students were evacuated from the school to the New Mexico Corrections Department’s administration building. No one was hurt. All children and...
Note from Jen – Our “Becoming” A Parent Story
Note from Jen Our “Becoming a Parent” StoryBy Jen Paul Schroer I’ve shared before with readers that I had my two kiddos a little later in life. Not by choice, but by circumstance. I got married in my early thirties, and we could not get pregnant for years. Infertility...
Student Artwork – Elementary Students
Sword Fighting as Community Building
Sword Fighting as Community Building New Mexico Fencing Foundation provides a welcoming atmosphere to learn an ancient sport, but it’s the people who make it so unique By Lily Alexander It wasn’t the first time I walked into New Mexico Fencing Foundation that I knew...
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Kid Artist Q & A Nora Effati Age: 7 School: Rio Grande School What title would you give this picture? ...
Featured Artwork – Art School Santa Fe
Voces de la familia
Es hora para hablar de los papás
Es hora para hablar de los papás Examinar los sistemas familiares y si los papás pertenecen a ellos o no By...
Ser madre de acogida es una locura
Ser madre de acogida es una locura Momma Kiki comparte su experiencia como nueva madre de acogida y lo que...