• Are you hoping to raise your family in a healthy environment but feel overwhelmed with where to start?
  • Are you trying to make better choices in the products your family uses or the foods your family eats but there is never enough time for a research? (Plus… strange words on the ingredient lists… eek!)
  • Do you feel pulled towards natural health, holistic remedies, and intentional living?

If any of this resonates with you, it’s no coincidence you have found Wholesome Children.
You’re supposed to be here!

Hi there! Welcome!! I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m Marketa, the stranger behind Wholesome Children and a busy mom of 8 (or 2, but it feels like 8) who is obsessively passionate about making this world a better place. When I’m not saving the world and our house is quiet, you can find me here, chasing after my thoughts and chattering into the void of virtual reality (because life just wasn’t busy enough).

What is Wholesome Children, and what can you find here?

I’m on a mission to help parents – LIKE YOU!!! – raise happy, healthy, wholesome kids and families! It is my passion and joy to share what I’ve learned on my journey to non-toxic living, robust health, and personal and family well-being.

Some of my favorite topics include:

  • Non-toxic baby products
  • Reducing toxicity in your life and home
  • Kids’ health
  • Intuitive parenting
  • Conscious living
  • Natural childbirth
  • Relaxed homeschooling
  • Mom life uncensored (keeping it real!)

RE: Homeschooling… Fair warning: don’t get your hopes up with lesson plans and worksheet printables. We unschool more than we homeschool and probably break all homeschool stereotypes. (It’s totally cool if you’re not a fan of homeschooling. I won’t make you homeschool. Promise.)

I want to share with you the research I’ve done.

I want to help you succeed at making better choices and following your inner voice.

I want to help you make your family healthier, while making your life easier!

My passion for healthy living happened organically and unexpectedly around the time I became a mom. It was like, whoa, here is your very own baby, the world is toxic, good luck!

Over the next weeks, months, years, wait… it has been over a decade now, wow… I kicked off an endless research around the topic of health from nutrition to personal care and cleaning products, from ordinary household furnishings to baby items, all the way to the depths of allopathic medicine principles VS. naturally acquired health.

It was a rude awakening.

  • Our brand new mattress was toxic.
  • The crib mattress, too.
  • Our blinds contained lead.
  • The diapers we were using were giving thousands of babies across the country painful chemical burns.
  • Most of our baby care products contained questionable ingredients.
  • Oh and our eco-friendly natural baby laundry detergent? You guessed it, one big liquid death trap.

Sadly, these were all products that the average parent was buying with the intention to give their baby the best care possible.

Isn’t that what we all want?

Despite our differences, aren’t all of us parents united by one major objective – to have happy, healthy families? To provide a healthy home for our kids? To do the best with what we have, and to be the best we know and can?

My babies are no longer babies. I can only wish I knew then what I know now.

But it’s never too late to share with PARENTS LIKE YOU that NEED TO KNOW RIGHT NOW, right?!

A few random things about me:

  • I’m an ambivert (an extroverted introvert, or flip it, doesn’t matter), which means that I sometimes confuse the hell out of my own self. Bless my friends and family.
  • I think breast milk is the best thing ever. I treated everything with breast milk while I could. EVERYTHING. Even my own pink eye.
  • I nursed my kids so long, they could ask for it in full sentences.

Still here? Whew. Good.

  • I love to hike. Just not at shopping malls. They suck the life out of me.
  • I don’t mind bugs, worms, slimy creepers or furry critters, but horses legit freak me out. Also, they know it and take full advantage of that. (My husband, on the other hand, LOVES horses and makes fun of me. Together with the horses.) I’m not sure about ponies. They’re a lot smaller but seem to be in on it, too.
A pony won't move.
He. Just. Wouldn’t. Move. But he walked happily for everybody else.
  • My second baby was born on the way to the hospital on the back seat of my car. It is unclear whether my husband will ever fully recover. It’s actually a funny story I may try to shimmy in someday.

Aaaanyway… Enough about me.

I hope you’ll find my tips for raising a wholesome family helpful and time- and sanity-saving. That’s the ultimate goal here!

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you stick around since you’ve managed to read this far.

Let’s connect!

You can find Wholesome Children on:

  • Facebook – which I promise I’ll get better at… one of these days… Maybe.
  • Pinterest

If you want to chat, talk to me!!!

XOXO Marketa

PS: If you know someone that you think would like reading this blog, please do share with them!

Doing what I do best. Recharging in the great outdoors with my family.