By Kimberly Hickok — 2021
New research finds that pot use during pregnancy was connected to increased levels of stress, anxiety, aggression and hyperactivity in young children.
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Attachment parenting has recently become a catchphrase for bonding with children. But there’s a lot more to it than babywearing and breastfeeding
Claire Arnold looks at the importance of maintaining physical and emotional connections with older children.
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No amount of meditation will allow me to unhear the sickening thud of my toddler’s head as it made impact with the edge of our wooden coffee table.
I suddenly knew that the mechanical reactions of my muscles and guts were my personality; that my soul, in fact, lay there writhing to break out of those rigid bonds. - Don Hanlon Johnson
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Not to mention all those emotional adjustments...
Her pregnancy at the age of 45 is why I sat in that villa talking to Alanis Morrisette. Every single one of us on this planet is the result of a successful pregnancy, but it’s still an experience you cannot explain until you’ve been through it.
The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.
How adding 30 seconds to a bedtime routine can foster empathy in a big way.
Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.
Raising an empathetic and kind kid is a beautiful thing, but it’s also important to prepare kids for the real world.