Dealing With Child Falls, Rolls, and Bumps Infants and toddlers are prone to rolling off beds or couches, falling out of high chairs, strollers, car seats or swings, and getting bumps and bruises from all kinds of things. The first thing to do when your child falls is to relax. Most falls are not serious. […]
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Tips on How to Awaken and Feed a Sleepy Baby
Help Baby Awaken and Feed More Eagerly Certain situations require baby to be awakened and fed promptly. Consider these tips for a gentle awakening approach and feeding technique. Try to wake baby during REM sleep. This lighter stage of sleep is recognized by fluttering eyelids, sleep grins, clenched fists, and limbs that are not limp. […]
10 Reasons Not to Hit Your Child
Reasons Not to Hit Your Child 1. HITTING MODELS HITTING There is a classic story about the mother who believed in spanking as a necessary part of discipline until one day she observed her three-year-old daughter hitting her one-year-old son. When confronted, her daughter said, “I’m just playing mommy.” This mother never spanked another child. […]
Childhood Masturbation: Eight Ways to Manage It
How to Handle Childhood Masturbation in Young Children Don’t run to call your neighborhood psychologist when your little girl rocks on her tricycle seat or your little boy puts his hands down his pants. Instead, stop and consider why this subject makes you squirm. The very word “masturbation” gives many adults a deeply uncomfortable jolt, […]
Attachment Parenting Fathering
Attachment Parenting for Fathers Attachment parenting is a big commitment, one that should not be made by mothers only. Babies need loving responses from Dad, too, along with the special comfort and fun only a father can provide. Fathers also help to nurture their babies by loving and supporting their wives. Attachment parenting does not […]
7 Benefits of Attachment Parenting
Benefits of Attachment Parenting for the Entire Family Attachment parenting offers so many wonderful benefits for not just mother and baby, but the whole family. 1. Mutual Giving The more you give to your baby the more baby gives back to you. Small and quiet moments of pure joy when your baby smiles at you […]
Attachment Parenting and High-needs Baby: Cause or Effect?
Does Attachment Parenting Result in a High-needs Baby? Do we do attachment parenting because our babies are high need? Or are our babies high need because we do attachment parenting, so we let them be themselves and showing all their needs? So many times, I hear “easy baby” stories. I wonder whether I had chosen […]
4 Ways Attachment Parenting Can Reduce the Risk of SIDS
Attachment Parenting to Reduce SIDS The most plausible explanation for SIDS, in most babies, is a defect in cardiorespiratory control and arousability during sleep. Also, research suggests that some infants at risk for SIDS have less-organized physiological control mechanisms. So, any parenting style that can enhance the development of a baby’s physiological control systems and […]
Aggressive Behavior in Toddler After New Baby
How to Stop Aggressive Behavior in Toddler Please help…my son (2.5 years old) is showing toddler aggressive behavior. He keeps attacking his dad (my husband) by hitting, punching, kicking, biting, screaming, growling, etc. He will occasionally do this to myself and his little brother albeit not as often. I have tried so many techniques to […]
Nutrition Deficit Disorder (N.D.D.) and How to Treat It
What is N.D.D. (Nutrition Deficit Disorder)? Oftentimes parents bring their child to me for consultation on learning or behavioral problems at school. They typically open their concern with, “We and our child’s teacher believe he has A.D.D….” After taking a nutritional history, I often reply, “Your child doesn’t have A.D.D., he has N.D.D. (nutrition deficit […]
Screen Time Recommendations Backed by Research
Screen Time Recommendations Based on Research Review Pediatricians have for decades advised concerned parents to use screen time wisely, especially for young children. A comprehensive research review of this dilemma appeared in the July 2020 issue of JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers from the University of Calgary Alberta, Canada, and Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute analyzed 42 […]
12 Ways to Stop Thumbsucking for Good
Thumbsucking Statistics and Ways to Help Your Child Stop In 1977 researchers studied fifty habitual thumbsucking children between ages one and seven. Researchers compared habitual thumbsuckers to children who did not suck their thumb. Studies showed that thumbsuckers tended to be bottle-fed rather than breastfed. The child who was weaned later was less likely to […]