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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,…
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…
Positive Father-child Relationship Can Moderate Negative Effects Of…
May Is Maternal Mental Health Month. See more resources here.
Maternal depression negatively impacts children's emotional and cognitive development and…
What Is Self-Directed Education?
Imagine what would happen if, instead of sending children to coercive schools where their natural ways of learning are curtailed, we provided them with the…