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For the Health of Our Society: “Normal” Child Abuse Prevention
Many of the mothers and mothers-to-be that I talk to are young—teens and early 20s—a challenging group to promote healthy parenting practices to, as they are still growing and developing themselves. We...
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What Childhood Wounds are You Carrying Around?
There’s a lot at stake with how we raise our children, with how our communities view and treat children. We, as a society, are slow to put into practice what research solidly shows as the most...
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Why Breastfeed? It’s More than Milk–It’s About Teaching Relationship Skills
The core of healthy parenting is responding to our children with sensitivity. On this last day of World Breastfeeding Week, which runs annually from August 1-7, I wanted to spotlight this choice in...
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On High-Reactive Temperaments and Secure Attachment
I attended a mother-and-tots group the other night. There were two babies in the corner, sitting in their car seats, one about two months old and the other closer to four months. The older baby was...
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The Emotional Legacy of Our Family Trees
I’ve been helping my mom research our genealogy off and on over the last few years. Lately, she’s been hunting for tombstones. As I walk the oldest part of the cemeteries, reading the grave markers, I...
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Prepare for Parenting by Healing Your Childhood Wounds
We often hear the cornerstone of healthy parenting quoted as consistently “responding with sensitivity” to our infants’ and children’s emotional and physical needs in relation to their...
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What’s the Big Deal with Attachment Parenting?
Photo courtesy of Free Images. Photo by Teresa Howes of Mt. Brydes, ON, Canada I hear, from time to time, that Attachment Parenting is not the only way to form a secure attachment with your child....
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Sensitive Responsiveness and the Bigger Picture
Is it enough that our children survive? Is it enough that our children grow up into adults who can be functioning members of society–who can choose to marry and have children, who can get and keep a...
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How Our Childhood Affects Our Health as Adults
It has been awhile since I’ve written. I feel too young to be writing it, but I have been dealing with some serious health issues. After being ill for a long time, I stubbornly visited a new doctor who...
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Better than a time machine
Your life experiences have made you who you are. They shaped you into the person you are today. For some of us, this may not be a bad thing. Despite life’s challenges, we have overcome. And we are now...
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