Child Development
Video: Breastfeeding Third Latch
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Parenting RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In this final video of the three part series on Breastfeeding latch, you will clearly see the baby pausing to swallow the milk. This is the best way to answer the question that plagues every [...]
Breastfeeding Benefits Dad Too!
“Many fathers fear that they won’t be able to bond with the baby without feeding bottles. This is very far from the truth. Bonding doesn’t occur through the ingestion of food through plastic. Bonding occurs through a physically, loving relationship. There are many ways for a father to connect to [...]
Video: Breastfeeding 2nd Latch
This video is part two of the breastfeeding latch series. In this video, Dr. Jack Newman discusses how hospitals are inadvertently undermining breastfeeding by teaching improper latch, improper habits (such as waking a sleeping baby to nurse) and giving bottles and artificial nipples which are latch destroying. He also mentions the ridiculous notion [...]
Natural Babyproofing
Most of them [poisonings] are preschoolers and occur before lunch and supper when children are hungry or thirsty. Most poisoning occur when products are being used, not while they are stored. Children do not have fully-developed taste buds like adults, so just because something doesn’t taste good, doesn’t keep children away. For child poison safety, [...]
Why Eco Parenting is Best
…the umbilical cord carries not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol. This is the human “body burden” — the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the [...]
How Your Stress Response Affects Your Children
Stress is everywhere you look and you can either succumb to it or learn to let it flow right by you. Jobs are stressful, financial woes can be stressful and yes, children can be stressful. While many things in life can be stressful, nothing in life has to be stressful. It is [...]
Another Great Reason Not To Spank
A recent meta-analysis of various spanking studies done over the years concluded that children who were spanked, slapped, hit or on the receiving end of objects thrown at them (shudder), were more likely to engage in criminal and anti-social behaviors as adults. This included domestic violence, sexual violence and child abuse.
There was a ….”93 [...]
Breast Is Best for Reducing Stress - Yahoo! News
Researchers studying the data on over 9,000 children found that despite other factors such as maternal depression, parental education levels, social class, and smoking habits, children who were breastfed respond more favorably to stress and have more reduced stress levels overall than their non breastfed counterparts.
Researchers are unclear whether the reduced stress levels are a [...]
The Most Important Thing to Teach Our Children
Most parents understand the importance of early learning and teach their kids basic knowledge such as letters, vocabulary and counting. Some parents start in the womb by playing tape recordings and they tape flash cards to the mobile hanging over the crib. Will such early learning really provide our children with a better life [...]
Are You Making Your Child Fat?
Childhood obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Parents everywhere are struggling to help their children who are gaining weight early and finding it very difficult to lose. Not sure what to do? Afraid you are making things worse by talking about it? Try these tips to coax your little one back to [...]
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