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This may not be a great confession to make as a pediatrician, but when it comes to sleep and kids, I am a total softie.
Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Confession: This Pediatrician Is a Sleep Softie
In the wake of PBS’ announcement of a Mr. Rogers next-generation spinoff featuring a descendant of Daniel Tiger , I set out to recall exactly who Daniel Tiger was by watching a few clips of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on YouTube. (Because that’s what the internet, and my work days, are for.)
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood: Watching as an adult is a freaky marvel
Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman
By PAMELA DRUCKERMAN Emmanuel Fradin for The Wall Street Journal. Pamela Druckerman's new book "Bringing Up Bebe," catalogs her observations about why French children seem so much better behaved than their American counterparts.gentle discipline
Unschooling is Not That Difficult, Folks
I just got home from some errands, sat down at my computer, and found a rollicking discussion going on on the Radical Unschooling Info page on facebook. It starts with a link to an article by Pam Sorooshian, on her blog.
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Every time I’m out with my kids – this seems to happen:
2011 Lesson #2 : Don’t Carpe Diem » Momastery
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Womb to World: A Metabolic Perspective - by Suzanne Colson
Letting babies "cry it out" is an idea that has been around since at least the 1880s when the field of medicine was in a hullaballoo about germs and transmitting infection and so took to the notion that babies should rarely be touched (see Blum, 2002 , for a great review of this time period and attitudes towards childrearing).
Dangers of “Crying It Out”
Why They Whine: How Corporations Prey on our Children By Gary Ruskin Web Exlusive