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| We did everything by the book: birthed at home, breastfed over two years, co-slept and wore our babies on our bodies 24/7 — why then do some attached children seem anxious, over-sensitive, angry and even hostile sometimes?
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| ‘Stop running with that in your mouth or you’ll trip over and die!’ So yelled a mother to her child in a shopping centre last week. Maybe she’d just had way too many coffees that morning... ...more |
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| Quite often, mothers (and to a lesser extent dads) find themselves needing to re-establish a sense of their own boundaries, after years of a symbiotic merger with their babies. ...more |
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| The average Australian child watches about four hours of television a day! Videos, computer and Playstation games add to the amount of time children spend staring at a screen. How does all this viewing affect their developing minds?
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| From birth onwards, babies learn by watching the household activities of their parents. We can help them discover their world by carrying them on our bodies in a baby carrier as we tidy, sweep, wash up and prepare food.
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| Why are chores important for children’s development, and which chores are appropriate for what age? Michele Dennis tells us more.
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| My son is 15 and has brought me nothing but...
'Trouble?' I thought you’d say that! No, my son is 15 and has brought me nothing but joy. 'You’re kidding! How did you do that?' ...more |
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| Rainbow Food is a fresh approach to eating for the whole family. Rainbow Food is designed to restore our original innocent relationship with food. It is practical, easy to use, and is beneficial to the emotional body as well as the physical body. ...more |
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| The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of child care, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, terrorised, and sexually abused.
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| I first encountered boredom as a child growing up in a big family in Idaho. In the summers, after chores, my mother would push us out the back door into a seemingly dull landscape of wheat fields and irrigation ditches. 'Find something to do!' she would o ...more |
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| Whether you’re on the phone, busy on your computer, or talking to another adult, it can be frustrating when your children constantly interrupt you. What’s surprising to learn is that they do it because they always get a response from you when they do! ...more |
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| Today, one finds no support for spanking in the scientific literature. This opinion, shared by mental health and child development experts, and other professionals in related fields, has been evolving for many decades and its beginnings can be found centu ...more |
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| It is our view that infants are genetically biased towards interaction with other people from the beginning. A child is pre-adapted to a social world, and in this sense is social from the beginning. If an infant is reared in a social environment not too d ...more |
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| At first, we might read the subtitle of this book and pass it by, thinking it doesn't apply to us, because we really feel deep down that we aren't able to give nearly enough of ourselves to our kids, let alone too much. With all the stresses and pressure ...more |
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| If you ask parents to list the most frustrating discipline problems during early childhood, you would find that these three items appear on every list. All children master their own version of these behaviors – every parent has to deal with them ...more |
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| Two years ago my husband and I were invited to dinner by a family, whose daughter I roomed with in college. Her oldest sister, with her family was also invited. We happened to arrive at the same time. We helped our children out of the car and made our way ...more |
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| Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questions the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oursel ...more |
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| My almost 5-year-old son has picked up the word "a..hole" and has been trying it out. I have been trying some advice about letting gutter talk take place at home so they don't do it elsewhere, but I just cannot stand to hear that come out of his mouth. ...more |
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| There was a time when my three children were television nuts. At any point during the day, you could walk through my house and hear everything from Power Rangers and Rugrats coming from my daughter’s room to heavy metal music and the World Wrestling Feder ...more |
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| Connecting to your child can be as simple as questioning your assumptions and concepts, writes Naomi Aldort. Learn how you can use the SALVE formula to turnaround misbehavour. ...more |
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| Go play outside! Rare words in today's screen driven childhoods. As the appreciation of and exposure to nature is replaced by relationships with screens and games, the relationship with ones own nature withers for lack of nurture. Parents need to reclaim ...more |
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