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Conscious Parenting
Baby Needs, Parenting Advice, and Cry-It-Out Sleep Training
In this era that prioritizes work over family, sleep training babies is often encouraged by authors and bloggers, and even pediatricians. Is this good advice?…
Meet The Wayfinders: Nine Oral Histories Of Successful Breastfeeding…
REGISTER FOR LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL'S 65TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The Meet the Wayfinders oral history collection of empowering, personal…
Children Need Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships: New AAP…
Prevention of toxic stress must be partnered with relational health, says AAP.
KEY POINTS
To grow in healthy ways, babies need to synchronize…
Beyond Trauma-Informed – A Video Presentation
A Center for Global Nonkilling presentation by Darcia Narvaez, PhD, and Mary Tarsha.
https://youtu.be/8DYh4LP-JwI
It could be argued that humans have…
How Has Humanity Lost Practical Wisdom?
First Nations Peoples show us how to grow earth-centered practical wisdom.
KEY POINTS
There are important characteristics of practical wisdom that…
Miranda Priestly is Not the Villain
(or, How Texas Stole Women’s Bodies Out from Underneath Our Noses)
How can any of us forget the delightful 2006 film starring Meryl Streep called The…
Why Is Play Good for Young Children?
A new study shows play’s effects on vagal tone.
KEY POINTS
Children's free play influences their physiological and psychological health.Healthy…
Intelligence Is Thwarted When We Are Distressed
Triggers undermine intelligence.
KEY POINTS
The human animal has built in self-healing instincts.Self-healing instincts are thwarted by cultural…
Go Ahead And Cry
Last week I headed into the high country of the Colorado San Juan mountains with a dear friend and backpacking buddy to spend several days and nights just…
Manage Your 4 Characters: Judgy, Anxious, Friendly, Open: Whole Brain…
Your conscious, analytical self is not alone.
KEY POINTS
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor draws more insights from her left brain stroke.Our brain…