Category Archives: Parenting
This is a wonderful story. Doctors gave up my 20oz baby for dead…but I saved her life with a cuddle. She said: “I didn’t want her to die being cold. So I lifted her out of her blanket and put her against my skin to warm her up. Her feet were so cold. “It was [...]
Sprint now offers a Family Locator service that for $9.99 a month that lets parents know just where their child is so long as the cell phone is on. For Parents, a service that can offer peace of mind. Verizon has a service called Chaperone that allows parents to set boundaries and if a child [...]
More than 80% of autistic children with a fever show some improvements in behavior and 40% had dramatic improvements. Fever can unlock autism’s grip The change involved things like longer concentration spans, more talking, improved eye contact and better overall relations with adults and other children. Zimmerman’s team said the fever effect had been noted [...]
Consider the latest news out of Chicago. Are we going through the Great Relearning**, Part 2? Rickets returns as kids’ bones weaker. Rickets is a softening of the bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Usually a disease seen only in developing countries, in most cases it can be easily cured with milk, [...]
They love their own libraries, read philosophy, history and fiction and when they need a great manager, the call goes out, “Get me poets”. CEO Libraries Reveal Keys to Success If there is a C.E.O. canon, its rule is this: “Don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors,” suggests David Leach, chief executive of the [...]
My mother used to counsel younger mothers nervous with a rambunctious child, ‘Don’t worry, they’ll grow out of it.” Apparently that’s the case with most kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ADHD Kids Can Get Better. researchers found that some areas in the ADHD brain — particularly those involved in thinking, attention and planning — [...]
With data from 24 colleges and universities, the National Survey of Student Engagement releases a study that gives hovering college parents extra credit. “Compared with their counterparts, children of helicopter parents were more satisfied with every aspect of their college experience, gained more in such areas as writing and critical thinking, and were more likely [...]
Only 5% of high school seniors sleep 8 hours a night. Half of adolescents get less than seven. Snooze or Lose Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years. – Using newly developed [...]
One small glass of wine a day is okay for pregnant women and safe for the fetus says the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the U.K. Safer to avoid wine in the first three months of a pregnancy. That’s when the brain and nervous system are developing.
When a grown child cuts off communication with a parent, the parent(s) feel shame, disillusion and hurt. Even if they have done nothing wrong, Even if their other children turned out fine. Joshua Coleman’s new book, When Parents Hurt, can help such parents cope and carry on. “When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and [...]
