Parenting
Swaddling: A Common Parenting Practice Under Fire
Swaddling can be beneficial for babies — as long as you do it correctly. (Photo: Getty Images)Two California caregivers were arraigned last week on child abuse charges for swaddling seven babies so tightly that the children had trouble breathing. Now parents around the country are wondering whether they could be harming their own children by [...]
Book offers parenting tips from the scriptures
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What is Value-Based Parenting?
Bill Cosby has this to say about parenthood, In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck–and, of course, courage. (Fatherhood, 1986). Author Julie K. Nelson comes from a teaching background [...]
Tangled web: Online parenting forums can be blessing, curse in quest for info
FARGO – Melissa Kindelspire used to spend at least a few hours each day on her computer, researching and corresponding in online parenting forums. Shortly after her second child was born, she’d had enough of the negativity and misinformation. “I kind of just had to say, ‘I’m not going to go on these anymore,’ ” [...]
Single Parenting, The Positive Discipline Way
As a single parent in our complex world, you face the challenge of doing along a job that was meant for two people. Do you ever feel too exhausted to negotiate the simplest routines with your children after a busy workday? Dont despair! Positive Discipline is a tried and true parenting method, chosen by thousands [...]
A New Parenting Policy Brings Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Closer To Silicon Valley …
leadership A New Parenting Policy Brings Marissa Mayers Yahoo Closer To Silicon Valley Culture Following her controversial ban on telecommuting, Yahoos Marissa Mayer has doubled paid leave for new moms and dads. Heres how Yahoo stacks up against some of Silicon Valleys gold standards for new parents.
Why Chinese ‘Tiger Moms’ Are So Controlling
Traditional Chinese-style parenting has gained a lot of attention in recent years for being more authoritarian than Western parenting. But there are limited empirical explanations for these differences. Now, new research suggests Chinese mothers are more psychologically controlling than European-American mothers in part because their feelings of self-worth are tied to their childrens performance. A [...]
Thoughtful Parenting: In-the-moment parenting
As parents, we spend a lot of time trying to get through a stage, a week or a day when our kids are young. A whiny afternoon can seem to last forever when you have a 2-year-old, yet how many times have you heard someone say, “It goes by so quickly. Enjoy every moment”? It [...]