Not a member yet? We will review it and take appropriate action. Thanks for helping to maintain extreme awesomeness on Wanelo.Iowa mom Melody Lauer has brought the issue of carrying a weapon while babywearing to the front of the national conversation recently with the media attention surrounding her "Babywearing and Carrying" workshop. The workshop trains parents who wear their baby and gun at the same time to do it in the safest way possible. In her blog, Limatune's Range Diaries, Lauer describes herself as a "wife, mother and woman with a gun." Part of her mothering involves babywearing, of which she is a staunch advocate. As a mother who routinely carries weapons while wearing her baby, she trains for the likely scenario that if she should ever confront an assailant, it will be with her baby attached to her body. She created the workshop to help parents like her learn the best way to prevent tragic accidents while protecting their family from harm. While Lauer's workshop may seem risky to some — why teach people to have a gun near a child at all — it's actually just an extension of responsible gun ownership.

If you own a weapon, you have an obligation to learn how to use it safely; otherwise you put yourself and others at risk. The police training motto "train how you fight" applies here perfectly — it would be wholly irresponsible to carry, wear and never practice doing both. Lauer's workshop strictly trains with empty and "dummy" weapons, but some parents take their training a step further and bring their children with them to the range. Texas mom of five Sara, administrator for the Facebook group Babywearing for Plus-Sized Mamas and member of the babywearing, personal protection Facebook group Sheepdog Mamas, routinely wears her baby when she practices shooting. "We shoot monthly as a family. When going to the range, I dress the way I normally do, which is sneakers, jeans, a T-shirt and a baby on my back. I have been asked many times why I practice with a baby on my back. My response is always the same. I can't say 'time out, let me put my baby down' when there is a need to use my firearm."

Image credit: Briana Rivinius Photography Weapons practice while babywearing isn't limited to just gun owners either. Tara is mom to active twins and is an avid bow hunter. Lacoste Duvet Cover ReviewShe and her husband routinely practice while wearing and have taken their kids with them while stump and turkey hunting. Country Homes For Sale Pratt Ks"Once they were about 8 months, we decided it was important they knew what hunting and trapping was," Tara said. Majestic Blinds"Wearing them frees up my hands. Not only that, but I know where they are, and we can move so much faster." Living in "bear country" as Tara does, that is a major consideration. She said her kids enjoy watching her shoot and even help by handing her next arrow to her. "Bow hunting takes work, and I want my kids to know what good, honest dedication means."

Image credit: Tara Browning While most instructors will agree it is crucial to train in the manner you will likely engage an enemy, not all will tell you to take your baby with you to the range. "I don't think it's necessary," says firearms instructor Mark Luell of Growing Up Guns. "The mindset, skills, tactics and gear issues can be worked with dry-fire (training with unloaded weapons) in the home. Home is completely absent of the loud noise and traumatic environment that a gun range would be to an infant." Mark sums up the training-to-carry-while-babywearing discussion perfectly: "The way in is training. Shaming mothers and fathers who have made the heavy decision to purchase firearms for their family's protection will discourage education and training. Lack of training and ignorance are what cause accidents… proper training and education is the only way." If you are a babywearing parent who also carries a weapon — a knife, pepper spray, stun gun, pistol, crossbow or even nunchucks — you have an obligation to train for scenarios involving babywearing.

Anything else is irresponsible. Kudos to Melody for recognizing a parenting need and working hard to educate people how to wear and carry safely. More on gun safety Why you need to learn to shoot with a kid in your armsKids and gun safetyHere's why I let my child play with gunsFran Bow Dagenhart is the protagonist of Fran Bow. Her parents were murdered by an unknown assailant. She has a cat named Mr. Midnight, her closest companion. Fran was chosen by the Great Valokas of Primeve to be the Keeper of the key. Fran Bow is a very curious 10-year old girl (who later turns 11) with bobbed brown hair and blue eyes. She usually wears a yellow dress with a small blue/green bow tie and brown boots with black-and-white striped stockings. Fran is an inquisitive young girl, who likes to examine her surroundings, scrutinize materials and combine them. She also thinks very vividly. To her social environment, she is a nice, polite (but sometimes persistent and annoying) little girl.

She's also quite smart, yet gullible at some points; sometimes clearly sensing danger, whereas other times lets her curiosity get the better of her. Fran loves animals above all things and particularly Mr. Midnight. She is quite anxious and jumpy, but also courageous. She longs for her home, and to be with Mr. Midnight and her Aunt Grace. Whether or not Fran truly suffers from some sort of psychosis is never revealed; it depends on whether the abnormal things she experiences (such as Itward, Mr. Midnight talking and all the twisted visuals) actually do happen in reality, or just inside of her head, and this is left for the player to deduct[1]. If the things were real, then Fran was never psychotic to begin with; her family's tragedy only happened because of Remor's decision to toy with her, which led her to be possessed by him. However, if they were, in fact, NOT real and only hallucinations, then it's likely just a result of her brain being tampered with through overdoses of Duotine by Dr. Oswald, affecting her mentality.

In that case, Remor could be seen as an avatar of Fran's own psychosis, her shadow, materialized by people experimenting on her. At the beginning of the game we see Fran Bow living a happy life with her mother and father as any ordinary little girl. They gift her a black cat which she then names Mr. Midnight and shortly after this her Aunt Grace arrives for dinner. Later in the week her aunt babysits her and Fran describes the experience as fun and shows a liking to her Aunt Grace. After a few days, she is disturbed by an ominous figure in the window of her room when playing with Mr. Midnight. Shortly after this she hears a scream from her parents' room and goes to investigate. Upon entering her parent's room she comes face to face with a gruesome scene; her parents have been killed and dismembered, their bodies are strewn about the bedroom. Terrified, Fran flees into the forest with Mr. Midnight and faints. Though her cat seems to want to stay and comfort her, two figures approach and he reluctantly flees.

Fran is then picked up by a hooded figure. After this Dr. Deern wakes Fran up, revealing this to all be a recollection of said events. Fran and Dr. Deern then talk for a bit, Fran demands to be released and Dr. Deern adamantly refuses. Fran receives her mother's old purse with a note from Aunt Grace inside. A nurse is then called in to give Fran a new medicine called Duotine; Fran is not allowed to leave the room until she takes it. Upon doing so she states that she is not feeling well and has a vision of blood, gore, and her parent's heads raining into the room, she quickly passes out. While unconscious she dreams of Mr. Midnight, who encourages her to come find him, saying the pills will help her do so. He says he is waiting for her in the forest and tells her he loves her. With these final words we fade into the First Chapter. When Fran falls to , she takes on the form of a tree and is picked up by two Itherstanise. She is taken to the , who takes the fruit of knowledge from her to learn about her and gives her a fruit to help her understand his people's language.

King Ziar explains to Fran that he knows why she is a tree, but is not the right person to tell her why. He then sends her to a high cliff to meet . Palontras takes Fran to a floating Island where she is submerged into a pool of a pink water under a waterfall, where he casts a spell to provide Fran with arms and legs after explaining to her that she turned herself into a tree in order to keep herself alive. Palontras confesses that he has never seen a human use a tree as a chrysalis before. He then returns her to King Ziar, who is petting Mr. Midnight. During Chapter 5, Fran comes into contact with another and younger version of herself living in the Asylum. This Fran likes to dress up extravagantly and put on dancing shows for her menagerie of toys. She has a key collection and likely was the one to take the house key and leave a note under the potted plants towards the end of Chapter 4. Though they both own the same yellow dress, the second Fran is not wearing it, instead in a blue robe, pearls, and heels all likely inherited from her mother or Aunt Grace.