When my daughter was born, like Socrates I knew only that I knew nothing – so I jumped into every childcare group and seminar I could find. A nice surprise was a lecture about mindfulness in child-raising by Diāna Zande. I was already drawn in by her first words which
My feeding story began harmoniously. After a traumatic birth that ended in an emergency caesarean birth, I met my baby only four hours later. The midwife brought her in, saying that she had started suckling the nurses thumb, she was hungry. I thought they could have brought her to me
Guilt is a feeling we as parents feel very strongly. In my groups I always read a list of things parents feel guilty about and it always makes people laugh because it truly is ridiculous to hear out loud that we can feel guilty about our feeding (too long or
We’ve heard of baby led weaning and baby led solids but when our baby is very small, we often forget that a small newborn is just as able to lead the feeding as an older child, as long as we give them the right tools. “What would be a tool
I was reading a lot about breastfeeding when I was preparing for the baby to come into our life. I was familiar with all the problem situations, yet I was very determined to fight them and I was hoping to feed my baby until he was at least 2 years
Parents experience guilt often. I will talk in a different article about guilt itself, where I will look to find if it’s a useful emotion to have. However, I am starting with this particular example because it affects nearly all parents. When a new baby is born, parents are born
This article was originally written for Arden University as a coursework for Psychology studies. The concept of defined parenting styles was first introduced in the 1960s when Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist, noticed that preschoolers exhibit different types of behaviour depending on the attitudes of their parents, and narrowed it