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Parenting
Picture your evening: Grandma comes over to babysit, and as you head out the door, your normally even-tempered baby starts crying inconsolably, even though Grandma stops by a few times each week. The same thing starts to happen at daycare drop-off...
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“Can we talk about these new room sharing guidelines? I’ve already moved the baby into his own room!” This question came from my sweet cousin, just ten weeks after having her second baby. Since this fall’s release of the American Academy of...
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Today is Christmas Eve day. I will spend the morning in clinic, seeing patients. By early afternoon, I will be home and getting ready for Christmas Eve dinner and mass. We will attempt to get our children, 4 and 6 years old, to bed at a reasonable...
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Remember when being a parent was a distant plan for the future? When you were judging other parents for the mac-n-cheese their kids were eating while making a massive mess of sugar packets in a local restaurant? When you were rolling your eyes at...
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Toddler
It’s pretty normal for toddlers to say “no” to food. Refusal comes in all forms: shaking the head “no,” putting a hand up to signal “no,” or verbalizing the word are all ways your toddler may let you know he or she is not having what you’re...
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Parenting
Ask almost any parent if a sleepy toddler is a happy toddler, and you’ll probably get an exhausted, “No!” In fact, research shows that lack of sleep or disordered sleep can be a serious problem for toddlers over the long term. A recent Norwegian...
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Toddler
One of the great miracles of parenting is watching your baby slowly emerge into toddlerhood and then childhood. Every new skill is a triumph, and each thought and feeling is experienced as a new, exciting and sometimes frustrating new sensation. By...
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Toddler
The primary parenting goal during infancy is to form an attachment with your baby. This is easily done with feeding. Breastfeeding has been shown over and over to create an environment whereby mom and child attach, or bond. Bottle feeding can have...