Attachment Parenting - an introduction
The day you bring your baby home from hospital is momentous. She's fallen asleep in the car, and you carry her into the nursery. It's freshly painted, with a beautiful new bassinet and a rocking chair for nighttime feeding...
I have endured a great deal. A year's work in a rat-infested pediatric emergency room. A hurricane on my wedding day. More than eight years of Barney. I made it through all of that without a peep. But this is too much...
When parents are criticised for neglecting their children - one is at least not surprised. But when parents are denounced, dissuaded or even shamed for choosing to be more nurturing, this seems astonishing...
Many parents recognize the harmful effects of physical and verbal punishment. They know that yelling, slapping, hitting, and spanking teach violence, destroy self-esteem, create anger, interfere with learning...
Lapses in behavior offer
opportunities to teach
There's no such thing as a quick fix. Now that may sound sad or daunting to parents who may want some simple tools to raise their children, but it's important to step back and look at the big picture...
The Trouble with
Sleep Training
The purpose of our column is to help parents become more aware, compassionate and connected with their children. We recently read a column by a psychologist who was addressing a question...
Knowing we are loved is not the same as feeling loved. Knowing the sun is shining by seeing it out the window is a very different experience than going outside and feeling the warmth of the sun on your skin...
If the happy angel you brought home from the hospital is, at about 3 weeks old, suddenly a very unhappy and uncomfortable bundle of tears... then your baby could be suffering colic.