How to Raise an Expressive Child Raising an emotionally expressive child is one of the biggest challenges of parenting for those of us who weren’t allowed to express our feelings as children. Here’s how to encourage your child to be expressive, yet respectful. 1. Practice Attachment Parenting A baby who can express needs becomes a […]
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Mommy Burnout
Avoiding Mommy Burnout Burnout is a state of emotional exhaustion. Mommy burnout happens when a mother has been out of balance for too long. With so much energy draining out of her, she reaches a point where she feels she has nothing left to give. Yet baby continues to need mom, and mom needs to go […]
Spoiled Children
Spoiled Children or Healthy Babies? Few parents make it through their offspring’s babyhood without being told that all their efforts to nurture and respond to their baby will surely spoil her. And if it’s not spoiled children that new parents are warned against, they’re told not to let themselves be “manipulated” by baby. Attachment parenting is not the […]
Raising a Moral Child
8 Tips for Raising a Moral Child Raising a moral child means teaching your child to live by the Golden Rule. Before your child can “treat others like you want others to treat you,” he has to learn how to empathize, to be able to think through an action before doing it and to judge […]
Dressing Your Child
Make dressing your child easier You will spend a lot of time dressing your child. It’s a lot easier to do if you don’t have to wrestle him through every step. Here’s how to get the job done efficiently so that you and your child enjoy it. Plan ahead Before buying children’s clothing, start dressing […]
Bye-Bye Binky
How to Wean Your Child Off the Binky Pacifiers are, as the name implies, peacemakers. As people who are around babies day and night, we support anything that keeps babies peaceful. Preferably this should be live caregivers, but sometimes human pacifiers need a break. As with all substitute nurturing devices, this is a question of […]
Attachment Parenting Explained
What Attachment Parenting is Not Attachment parenting gets discussed as a new theory on parenting when it is really doing what feels natural for parents and baby. Attachment parenting is loving and attentive parenting but is nothing close to spoiling a child. The idea behind attachment parenting is that you get to intimately understand your […]
Observations on Attachment Parenting Outcomes
Attachment Parenting Outcomes The Baby B’s translate into the Childhood C’s when we examine the Attachment Parenting outcomes. Important Note: Parents should not take all the credit or all the blame for the person their child later becomes. You do your best to raise your children with all the tools and resources you have at […]
The Unconnected Child
Detached from the start Suppose parents, for fear of spoiling their baby or letting her manipulate them, restrain themselves from responding to her cries and develop a more distant, low-touch style of parenting. What happens then? The baby must either cry harder and more disturbingly to get her needs met or give up and withdraw. […]
Attachment Parenting Chemistry
Attachment Parenting Chemistry of Mom and Baby Attachment Parenting Releases feel-good Hormones Attachment parenting chemistry shows that good things happen to the hormones of mothers and babies who are attached. Hormones regulate the body’s systems and help them react to the environment. One of these hormones is cortisol. Produced by the adrenal glands, one of […]
Milk Allergies
I worry about allergies. We have a lot of allergies in our family and I’m concerned that my child may develop milk allergies. How common are these and how do I recognize them? Milk allergies are over-diagnosed by the general population and under-diagnosed by doctors. The real incidence of milk allergies lies somewhere between the […]
16 Ways to Trim Childhood Fat
Lower Your Child’s Risk for Being Overweight or Obese 32 percent of children in the United States are overweight or obese according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHNES) performed between 2011 and 2012. This represents a 39 percent increase since 1994. Whereas nutritional deficiency is the most prevalent nutritional problem in developing […]