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Baby’s eating habits – an unscientific study

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by Beverly Pressey

As mindful as we try to be, there are times when our child’s behavior seems to make no sense to us.  This is no rational pattern or reason nor is there any developmental theory to support what we observe.  However you are looking at only one child.  I have had the pleasure of observing children eat and talking to parents for the past 20 years, in a child care settings and in classes with parents present.  I have made a few unscientific, non-research based observations.
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Stress and resiliency

by Yaffa Maritz August 3, 2010
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As young families, we all experience our own measure of stress. I often hear parents talk about their everyday struggles including feelings of isolation, the difficulties in finding quality child care that is not too expensive, frustration about the confusing and contradictory information about child rearing practices, and juggling the work and home environment.

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To eat or not to eat – the marshmallow experiement

by Yaffa Maritz July 21, 2010
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ZERO To THREE is a national nonprofit organization whose main goal is to research and share up to date information on how to promote emotional health in children and their families. Recently, they have conducted a survey of 1,615 parents of children ages birth to three years old exploring possible gaps in knowledge of early [...]

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Humor – the best medicine?

by New York Times Family Column May 26, 2010
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By T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., and JOSHUA SPARROW, M.D. from The New York Times Syndicate’s FAMILIES TODAY column Humor serves many purposes for children and parents. When a child laughs at himself, he shows a strong self-image. Other children like him and adults feel responsive toward him. In fact, humor can be one of the surest [...]

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Listening Mothers Program – what’s it all about? Part II

by Margaret April 26, 2010
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Click here to read ‘Listening Mothers Program – what’s it all about Part I’ Listening Mothers is a specific kind of group, a specific solution to these universal problems and more.  We start by discussing the early experience of motherhood. In a typical group, we begin introductions by asking people to share their name, their [...]

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Listening Mothers Program – what’s it all about? Part I

by Margaret April 15, 2010
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This essay is about my understanding of the experience of becoming a mother and the needs that are created by this creative process.  I will write about how some of these needs may be met by participation in a group which includes both new-mother-peers, and a trained and empathic facilitator to do the parallel work [...]

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Fattening up babies?

by Beverly Pressey January 13, 2010
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We are so obsessed about weight in this country.  Even babies are targets. Babies are supposed to have visible body fat.  It is normal for a baby to have several chins, a neck that is hard to find, and rolls of fat at their thighs, wrists and elbows.

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Are we born with an urge to help or fight?

by Yaffa Maritz December 13, 2009
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Are we born aggressive, ready to assert ourselves on top of the food chain of evolution, or are we born with an urge to help others and be cooperative?

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Easing sibling rivalry

by New York Times Family Column December 4, 2009
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By T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., and JOSHUA SPARROW, M.D. from The New York Times Syndicate’s FAMILIES TODAY column As a child enters first grade, friends pull him away from his younger sibling. The first-grader may say, “Mom, no one wants to come over to my house. They know SHE’LL tag along.”

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New Foods For New Babies

by Beverly Pressey December 4, 2009
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Food introduction for new parents can be daunting.  There are many books, charts and experts to tell you what to do and how to do it.  But by observing your child you will know more than the experts.  To get started, here are several simple reminders:

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Stimulating Emotional and Intellectual Growth in Children

by Ashley October 22, 2009
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Excerpts from the Psychology Today article Raising Baby: What You Need to Know by Joanna Lipari The key to stimulating emotional and intellectual growth in your child is your own behavior—Parental behavior what you do, what you don’t do, how you scold, how you reward and how you show affection. [The article compares] researchers’ “old [...]

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Learning to Walk

by New York Times Family Column October 18, 2009
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By T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., and JOSHUA SPARROW, M.D. from The New York Times Syndicate’s FAMILIES TODAY column When your child is about a year old, she focuses on learning to walk. We call that a “touchpoint” — a major advance that is sometimes accompanied by a temporary retreat in other areas.

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A Baby Who’s Shy with her Grandparents

by New York Times Family Column October 1, 2009
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By T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., and JOSHUA SPARROW, M.D. from The New York Times Syndicate’s FAMILIES TODAY column Question: Our 11-month-old girl is healthy, smart and normally developed. She’s a little distant, however, in that she doesn’t seem to need anyone’s affection but ours. She accepts others if they’re not too pushy, and she feels OK [...]

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Attachment Parenting; What’s it all about?

by Yaffa Maritz August 19, 2009
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Across the ocean in the Uk in about 1950 when John Bowlby, a well known Psychologist and researcher said to parents in his famous speech:” All of us find security in being with people we know well and are apt to feel anxious and insecure in crowds of strangers. Particularly in times of crisis or [...]

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Parenting for Peace

by Yaffa Maritz August 16, 2009
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Over ten years ago, we started the Listening Mothers program, a support group for moms and their infants. We, a group of psychotherapists, pulled together our understanding of the foundations of emotional health and secure attachment with the recent research about brain development, to design a program that provides a physical and emotional space for [...]

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