Baby Care: Baselines For Mental Health
Each year Infant Mental Health Awareness Week reminds us that babies need particular care to promote good mental health. In fact, babies need 24/7 care of a…
Drinking Diet Drinks During Pregnancy Linked To Child Obesity
Children born to women who had gestational diabetes and drank at least one artificially sweetened beverage per day during pregnancy were more likely to be…
Playful Wisdom: A Father’s Adventure
Playful Wisdom Asks: What About Fathers?
The neuroscience is conclusive: child development is model dependent. Ideally then, the focus of early childhood…
How Does Trauma Affect A Person’s Interaction With Their Child?
Trauma can change the brain . . .
. . . but the person who experienced the trauma may not be the only one whose brain changes.
In the video above,…
Darwin Was Right: Females Prefer Sex With Good Listeners
Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection, researchers have found that male moths with…
Cannabis, Pregnancy And Breastfeeding
What is the long medicinal history of cannabis in pregnancy and breastfeeding? What does the science say? Laurel Wilson, a 20 year veteran childbirth…
Trump Proposes “World’s Worst Family Leave Policy”
The Haves and Have Nots of Paid Family Leave: A Report by PL+US: Paid Leave for the United States
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The Trump administration officially…
The Biology Of Attainment
Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk delivered this keynote address in April 2017, at the Leading Edge Conference hosted by the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in…
Home Base: The “Safe Place” We Are To Our Children
The player steps up to home base. While at the plate, he or she is perfectly safe. From this position of safety they swing the bat and hopefully hit the ball.…
Trump’s “Terribly Flawed” Paid Leave Proposal Would…
Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO and executive director of MomsRising.org, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million…