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#1 We have to stop overparenting our babies. We have to recognize that they are already learning everything in the early months, and that they are strong and capable. We must provide them with simple, beautiful spaces instead of rushing them to learn everything we think they should.
#2 The Montessori approach can be applied from birth to raise secure babies who are ready to explore...
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 I, too, had a love-at-first-sight romance with a Dutch boy named Bram, who was studying abroad in Florida when we met. We had a modern twist on a traditional romance, with him sending long handwritten letters as well as frequent emails and phone calls.
#2 I was apprehensive about moving to the Netherlands and having a Dutch baby. I wanted my son to have a happy childhood,...
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#1 The modern parent struggles to raise children who are not as respectful and disciplined as they were when they were children. Many parents feel as though they are not making any progress with their children, and they are growing more and more frustrated.
#2 The gap between children and adults has never been bigger. We struggle to live up to our image of what parenting...
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#1 Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most women breastfed their babies. However, the historical record shows that there have been no shortage of remedies for so-called lactation failure.
#2 In the United States, wet nursing was less common than it was in Europe. By the 1860s or so, mothers found a new option for feeding their babies: homemade formula.
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#1 I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, and I was expected to marry a rich Jewish man when I was eighteen and have lots of children. The fact that I had different goals caused a rift in my relationship with my grandfather.
#2 The importance of men was illustrated to me when my brother Lee was born on May 23, 1945, three days before my fifth birthday. My parents brought...
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#1 Toxic people are difficult to identify, because their toxicity is not easy to discern. They are often good at hiding it, and they can be difficult to deal with because we're always dealing with a two-to-five-year-old in an adult's body.
#2 Toxic people cannot tolerate consideration of others. When trying to have a conversation with them, they are self-referential...
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#1 My new housemate is 85 and widowed. She likes to garden and talk about paintings. I'm not fussed by her idiosyncrasies, as long as I can keep my distance from her.
#2 I live with a very old and very peculiar woman named Winnie who doesn't like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise.
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#1 I eventually managed to visit Christoph and told him that my mother wanted to visit me. He took a photograph of me standing next to the café owner, smiling and holding some cups on a tray. The next day, he gave me a print of the photo and said, Put it in your bag. You can show it to your mum when she comes.
#2 I was excited to see my mother again, and I was excited...
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#1 I want to give my kids the confidence to dream out loud. I want to show them that ridiculously good things do happen, even if they seem completely unbelievable. I was given the opportunity to do something with my creativity and passion, and I want to give that to my kids as well.
#2 When you articulate a new dream, you should receive a response similar to Philip's....
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#1 The first few months of a baby's life are a period of great emotional and physical upheaval, and parents are often left distressed by the baby's crying. But health professionals have been saying for years that crying for prolonged periods is normal in the first 16 weeks and won't hurt the baby.
#2 Crying in the first few months of a baby's life is normal and won't...
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#1 I was adopted, and my dad wanted me to have clear skin so people wouldn't stare at me. He gave me a Clearasil regimen, which didn't work.
#2 My dad, a biology professor at an Ole Miss, was the academic advisor for the premed football players. He cooked for them, and they would come over for dinner. As I got older, this became less and less, until it was just premed...
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#1 I had night terrors as a child, and I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling my chest tighten and my heart race. I would never let boys see my privates, even if they were tricked into doing so.
#2 I was the difficult child, and I knew it. I was always getting in fights, and my mother never seemed to understand or believe me when I told her about them.
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#1 When our children are most challenging, our minds begin their commentary. We evaluate our actions as parents, our choices in the moment, and the behavior of our children. We often listen to what our minds say, and this can lead to problems in how we behave toward our children and how they behave toward us.
#2 The parents we work with are always ashamed or embarrassed...
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#1 I remember my grandfather having a heart attack and being extremely despondent about his health and the future of the farm. My mother and father stayed because of this, despite my grandmother dying and my father being offered a job in Bloomington.
#2 My grandfather, who had been a full-time hobby farmer, suddenly became very ill. He was rushed to the hospital, where...
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#1 I was moved again, this time to a house with my sisters Camille, Gi, and Norm. We were wards of the state, and our mother had abandoned us. We were all very skinny because we were constantly hungry.
#2 I was the eldest of three girls, and we had survived a lot in our short lives. We had seen and experienced a lot, but we rarely cried. Until that day, when my sister...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 As a four-year-old, I was diagnosed with severe sleep deprivation. I was then moved to the garage, where I slept on a cot without a blanket, and was fed only when Mother felt like it.
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#1 I had been abroad for almost two years, working full time as a writer, and I intended to return to my life in Wales, to my stone cottage, my dog, and my Scottish fiancé. But family matters brought me home. I was called a consultant resource person in my job description, and the children were termed behaviorally disordered.
#2 I was coming to the conclusion that I...
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Book Preview: #1 The Visual Cliff experiment is a test of depth perception and how it is developed. It involves a checkerboard pattern that lies flush under a Plexiglas surface for half of its length, but then slants some four feet, creating the illusion of a sheer drop beneath the solid surface.
#2 The infant's cry is pitched in such a way to get the attention of the adult brain....
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