: ' love'
The “Life Lessons” Fallacy
Why I go crazy when I hear people say they are engaging in specific parenting practices in order to teach their baby/toddler/child about the real world. [...]
Shame, shame, shame
Let me say this – if your belief in your cause makes you think you can attack a mother who is grieving, you have lost your way. I don’t care what your cause is. [...]
Reflections On “One of Those Years”.
With the close of 2012 coming, I’ve been hearing people say that 2012 was “one of those years”. Something we say about a year when it hasn’t been what we’d hoped, and thus something I [...]
For the Love of Sleep
In many ways, sleep is a social activity and is hugely important to our social well-being. Though we sleep alone in our society, this is not how we have evolved, and we see this when [...]
My Attached Child is Not a Bratty Hooligan: Part 2
A continuation of the discussion about how permissive parenting is NOT attachment parenting. In turn, our attached children will not be sitting in our basement at 30 with no job and no goals. [...]
Dad’s Corner: Unexpected Birth
As many are aware, and many can contest to, child birth is an amazing part of life; that until you go through it yourself no one can tell you what it is going to be like, [...]
Educating the Experts – Lesson Two: Needs
Have you ever been fed, clothed, and dry and still been sad? Or scared? Or simply felt the need for human contact? If you answered no, you are either a psychopath or lying. [...]
How All This Started & As Cool As I Am by Pete Fromm: A Review
I should start by telling you that Pete Fromm is one of the best authors that you’ve probably never heard of. [...]
Evolutionary Parenting vs Attachment Parenting
The basis for these two approaches is quite different and it is my hope that the Evolutionary Parenting approach may be able to cross chasms that have not been penetrated by Attachment Parenting. [...]
A Long Goodbye
Mothers. You hope to be a good one, or married to a good one. You’re lucky if you had a good one growing up. And you end up with memories, good or [...]
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
Lots of people argue this. Look at the rates of depression and other
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
Personal anecdotes are more appropriate for an opinion piece than clut
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
Personal anecdotes are no good as anecdote does not equal data. Howev
Five Reasons to Wear Your Baby
I'm a big fan of babywearing and wear both of mine, but statements lik
Press Release Re: Carpenter et al. Bedsharing Study
No it wasn't the Japan study, it is this one. It uses several Western