Parenting Resources: USA.gov

Great parenting resources on this website, including child care information, parent education, and health education.

Parenting Resources: USA.gov

Crazy Talk and American Politics: or, My Glenn Beck Story - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

We have a responsibility to interject reason into political discussions. Unfounded conspiracy theories are distracting us from finding real solutions to our nation's problems. I would like to take this opportunity to declare crazy, paranoid talk in the news and inf0-tainment media unsustainable.
Crazy Talk and American Politics: or, My Glenn Beck Story - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms - Yahoo! News

Laboring women need options. This is one that may work for some women, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to an epidural.

Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms - Yahoo! News

Is Breastfeeding advocacy anti-feminist? An essay by Katherine A. Dettwyler — Lactivist Leanings

Feminism, to me, is supporting women in all their various roles--especially motherhood. I have enjoyed Katherine Dettwyler's work for decades. It never, ever occurred to me that her work was somehow anti-feminist. Such a narrow view of feminism does not advance the cause of women's rights, and it does not improve our well-being.
Is Breastfeeding advocacy anti-feminist? An essay by Katherine A. Dettwyler — Lactivist Leanings

Celebrity Booby Trap: Bethenny & Rachael Ray Frown on Public Breastfeeding

As long as we force breastfeeding women into back rooms, societally we will all lack familiarity and comfort with it, and breastfeeding rates will remain lower than our stated public health aims. We all benefit from breastfeeding. It is better for the infant, the mother, and society. Not only are famlies not spending money on a product they don't need, but they're not polluting the environment with all the unnecessary packaging and bottles, etc. I don't know this Bethenny person, and I've never been a Rachael Ray fan (we can all open cans, Rachael), but it seems to me if you are in a position of having people actually *listen* to you, you should use that opportunity to be an advocate, not yet another obstacle.
Celebrity Booby Trap: Bethenny & Rachael Ray Frown on Public Breastfeeding

Effects of Early Nutritional Interventions on the Development of Atopic Disease in Infants and Children: The Role of Maternal Dietary Restriction, Breastfeeding, Timing of Introduction of Complementary Foods, and Hydrolyzed Formulas -- Greer et al. 121 (1): 183 -- AAP Policy

This revision of AAP recommendations regarding introduction of foods that are common allergens is just about the muddiest document I've ever read. Aside from recommending breastfeeding, particularly during the first 6 months, this is about as close as I've ever seen the AAP come to saying, "we just aren't sure what you should do." Unfortunately, sometimes recommendations from the medical community are based on very little actual science. We now have enough data to know that we need more data.

Effects of Early Nutritional Interventions on the Development of Atopic Disease in Infants and Children: The Role of Maternal Dietary Restriction, Breastfeeding, Timing of Introduction of Complementary Foods, and Hydrolyzed Formulas -- Greer et al. 121 (1): 183 -- AAP Policy

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What employers want: the perfect, workaholic employee with no life. Reasonable? No, since such a lifestyle is unhealthy. What is needed is more flexibility to achieve a better work-life balance. Read more.
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