Are today’s parenting practices hurting kids’ brain development?
Are we raising kids to be more aggressive, anxious, and depressed because we use strollers and carriers, don’t breastfeed exclusively, and sleep train? At a symposium at Notre Dame, researchers from...
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What I Learned By Failing as An Attachment Parent
Before my son was born, I had a lot of plans for how I was going to parent. I read lots of books and made assessments based on what I observed from my friends’ parenting challenges. I thought that I...
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A Parenting Researcher Reveals To Me Why Our Parenting Style Matters
Are you a helicopter parent, attachment parent, or intensive parent, and why does it matter? This is the introductory post to my new series, Experts Unplugged. In this series, I will explore parenting...
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Rethinking Attachment Parenting: More Confused Than Ever
I had a brief flirtation with the idea of “attachment parenting” before my son was born. But now I’m not sure what I am. During pregnancy I was intrigued by several components of what I understood to...
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