Some newborns enter the world with fingernails so long that they need to be cut right away to prevent them from scratching their faces. Expect your newborn’s nails to grow very fast and don’t be afraid to cut them. If you’re timid about cutting your baby’s fingernails, as many parents are, here’s how to make […]
4 Ways to Raise an Expressive Child
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 […]
Foreign Objects In the Nose
Identifying and Removing Foreign Objects In the Nose An article reported in the December 2015 issue of The Wall Street Journal called attention to how frequently children stuff harmful objects in the nose. The usual culprits were cherries, chickpeas, nuts, ladybugs, pebbles and, can you believe it, little flat batteries. While most of these were […]
Failure to Thrive Infant
Helping the Failure to Thrive Infant Throughout our 30 years of working with parents and babies, we have grown to appreciate the correlation between baby growth (emotionally and physically) and the style of parenting they receive. We have noticed that failure to thrive in infants is often simply cured by more parental nurturing. Keep Baby Thriving: […]
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 […]
8 Steps To Reduce Grumbling and Complaining
Make Children’s Attitudes Easier to Live With Are you tired of asking your child to do something — over and over again — and all you get is grumbling and complaining? Or your child obeys, but reluctantly, and not without protest. Neither children nor adults always do things with a cheerful spirit, but there are […]
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 […]
Disease Consequences of Obesity
Just about every organ of the body works less well when you’re overweight. Here are the major health problems associated with being over-fat. Increased cardiovascular disease: With excess body fat comes higher levels of blood lipids: cholesterol, LDL (the “bad” cholesterol), and total triglyceride levels all increase, while HDL (“good” cholesterol) decreases. These lipid levels […]
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 […]
Comparision of Formulas and Breastmilk
To be fair, formula companies have produced milk for babies which, at least on paper, seems to resemble the real thing. Formula is definitely better than it used to be. But on close inspection, what the factories make doesn’t quite measure up to what mom makes. It is nearly impossible for artificial baby milk manufacturers […]
Safe Formula-Feeding Tips
Use before the expiration date on the label Use refrigerated, opened, ready-to-feed and prepared formula within 48 hours. Don’t leave bottles of formula out of the refrigerator for more than two hours. Throw away the formula left in the bottle after a feeding, since germs from baby’s saliva will multiply in the warm formula. Refrigerate […]