(The Natural Child Project) by Jan Hunt
We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready. We ask an infant to keep quiet. We ask a 2-year-old to sit still. We ask a 4-year-old to clean his room. In all of these situations, we are being unrealistic. We are setting ourselves up [...]
A team of researchers from the University of Granada have found that babies who were breastfed developed stronger leg muscles as adolescents than those who were not breastfed.
The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, surveyed the parents of 2,567 adolescent kids about the type of feeding their children received after birth, and the length [...]
A recent study found that flavors in a mother’s diet shape her baby’s brain, possibly altering her child’s lifelong likes and dislikes for certain foods.
“It’s clear in humans that the more varied nutrition of the mom, the more open the baby is going to be to different things,” said Diego Restrepo, a neuroscientist at the [...]
The results of a New Zealand study that explored ways in which parents could establish and build parental and attachment relationships with children adopted from foreign countries was just published by the Journal of Social Work. The study, which focused on children adopted from Russian orphanages, revealed that a strong commitment, diligent preparation, conscious parenting, [...]
Today marks the release of a book titled “The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves Empowering our Children” by Namaste author Shefali Tsabary, PhD. With a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book turns the traditional methods of parenthood on its head by shifting the emphasis from a linear,parent-to-child relationship, to a circular, mutually beneficial, [...]
In the just-released book titled “The Paranoid Parents Guide: Worry Less, Parent Better, and Raise a Resilient Child“, author Christine Barnes provides new insights on how paranoid parents can worry less and become better parents. In doing her research for the book, Ms. Barnes interviewed parents throughout the country and came up with a list [...]
Touch is the only sense that a human being cannot live without. Yet infants in the U.S. often spend a majority of their lives in cribs, strollers, baby seats, infant carriers, and infant car seats, rather than being held or receiving the nurturing touch necessary for healthy emotional and neurological development. Parents in the U.S. [...]
In the recently published book titled “The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids”, author and Daily Telegraph parenting columnist Tom Hodgkinson writes: “Welcome to the school of inactive parenting. It’s a win-win situation: less work for you and better for your children, in terms of their enjoying their everyday lives and [...]
I wear six hats, but the most important of these is Mom. A few days ago when I dropped my sons off at school something happened that made me realize how important that hat is. I dropped #1 son off first. Then I drove #2 son around the side of the building where he usually [...]
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