Parenting

The family bed

I would love to get some feedback on this story . I must be turning into my mom, because despite being a so called new age parent, I believe these parents are creating a litany of problems further down the road both for their kids and their relationships. Tish tosh…. c’mon, we all love our kids but it is good to tuck them in at night in their own beds.

Source: CNN

Let’s Talk Parenting Taboos

Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman co-founded Babble, a website for parents. He’s the CEO, she’s the VP of sales strategy and brand development, and they have three sons.
Source: TED

A successful work-life balance

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Raising small children without stress, good health and a sense of fairness in the marriage – this is the experience of spouses in the 1970s who shared the responsibility of staying at home with the children while working part-time. Sociologist Margunn Bjørnholt has interviewed these couples 30 years later. [continue reading…]

Oxytocin: It’s a Mom and Pop Thing

oxytocinThe hormone oxytocin has come under intensive study in light of emerging evidence that its release contributes to the social bonding that occurs between lovers, friends, and colleagues. Oxytocin also plays an important role in birth and maternal behavior, but until now, research had never addressed the involvement of oxytocin in the transition to fatherhood.

A fascinating new paper by Gordon and colleagues reports the first longitudinal data on oxytocin levels during the initiation of parenting in humans. They evaluated 160 first-time parents (80 couples) twice after the birth of their first child, at 6 weeks and 6 months, by measuring each parents’ oxytocin levels and monitoring and coding their parenting behavior. [continue reading…]