By Lic. Pediatric Nutritionist Danielle Shea Tan & Lactation Educator-Counselor Moorea Malatt We’ll keep this straight-forward and to the point because families need guidance immediately on how to feed their babies in the midst of the current infant formula...
Many of my gentle discipline clients and workshop attendees eventually ask this one question: “I feel like I’m non-stop entertaining my child. Is there a normal amount of time my toddler should be able to play alone?” There is no normal amount time a...
Neighbors and friends told me they could find almost zero internet information on cooling tiny babies in extreme heat. No time to lose with cooling your baby down, so let’s get to it! Keep the lights off or very low. Do frequent 10-15 minute tepid baths for baby...
Understanding Night Terrors It isn’t paranormal, but it is “parasomnia”. Parasomnia is scientific word for night terror and nightmare or other unusual sleep behavior. All children have nightmares at some point and many children have at least one episode of night...
(Updated 2021) I’m here to confess that I dread Mother’s Day. I feel guilty about that dread and maybe you do, too. For me, it’s kind of like my birthday (which I also don’t love) where people ask what I want and say it’s all about me but...
Parents, we are not ok. But these cookies make it a little better. I’d never attempted to share this one-bowl recipe because it was my “secret” but since now three people have asked me for it since the pandemic started, I feel it is my social duty to...
Transcript here. Resources at bottom. Talking to our children about racism and police violence is not just our duty to black folx as white allies, it is a service to our children. And yet so many white folx shy away from doing this hard work. Many of my acquaintances...
It is very popular to teach children to sing the ABC’s to help them complete a successful hand washing, but my preference as a preschool teacher and director was to teach songs about hand washing so that children don’t space out while singing the song but...
“We’ve rekindled our intimacy!” This is my favorite kind of feedback after working with a gentle sleep client. I also know that most parents are not coming back to a healthy sex life so easily, even after they begin sleeping again. The Madonna-Whore...
I hate giving warnings like this because I think parents have enough stressful dung being flung at them but here I’m just looking out for your baby’s safety and your own future sleep! We look to anything to make life easier and to make our baby sleep and...
