Stress and Synchrony: Implications for Sleep Training
New research suggests stress can be "caught"; that is, mothers can pass their stress onto infants by touch. Does this provide support for sleep training? I am going to show you here why I think it does not at all...
Distraction, Redirection, and Responsiveness
Here I want to lay out some critical distinctions between what it means to distract, redirect, or respond to a child, what it looks like, and whether or not each method works, according to research.
Guest Post: Friends and Foes in a Baby’s Mind
At what age does your infant morph from a cute and cuddly bundle to the third person in the room; the onlooker who forces you to defer certain conversational topics to a later time when you and your spouse are alone?
Lies and Damn Lies: Babies Cry for No Reason
One of the biggest problems facing modern parenting is the idea that babies will cry for no reason. It undermines responsiveness, parental efficacy, and hurts the parent-child dyad. That, and it's a load of...
Vaccine Education Resource Links
Basing decisions on things like vaccination should be done from research and evidence, not fear. Finding sources that provide this information can be hard, but hopefully some of these will help.
Reasons Toddlers Wake (and Sometimes Cry) At Night
Many parents who expect and accept their babies waking and crying end up frustrated when this stage doesn't magically pass in toddlerhood. Here are some of the many reasons toddlers wake and cry at night (and why they are deserving of our responsiveness too).