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How Your Stress Response Affects Your Children
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Parenting RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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. [...]
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 [...]
Parents use religion to avoid vaccines - Yahoo! News
If the only way a person can avoid having their innocent children injected with dangerous toxins is to claim a religious exemption - more power to them!
Public health officials are in a tizzy about this because apparently non-vaccinated children are “carriers” for disease. Vaccinated children cannot pick up a disease overseas, only non-vaccinated children. [...]
Baby Sign Language Benefits
Much of attachment parenting is based on respect for your baby as a human being with full rights despite not being able to communicate them from the start. Infant sign language is a perfect example of parents sacrificing a few moments of time to teach their child a skill that will allow them [...]
The Importance of Fathers
“Helping men understand what an invaluable and irreplaceable role they play in the development and lives of their children can lead them to make a greater commitment and investment in their family. ..too many fathers become convinced that they are simply an extra set of hands to help around the house, rather than irreplaceable [...]
Breastfeeding on Demand - 2 Videos
If you are a proud supporter of breastfeeding, then these are a couple of great videos to watch. They are, admittedly, a bit more extreme than most breastfeeding families you may know, but they still underscore the important role breastfeeding plays in bonding and child development. It seems that while the videos cover the [...]
Eating For Breastfeeding
Breastmilk provides all the nutrients a baby needs for healthy development. The following is some advice on eating a varied and balanced diet to help keep you and your baby healthy when you’re breastfeeding.
Many breastfeeding mothers worry about what food they should be eating. The answer is simple; your diet should be varied.Everyone knows about [...]
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