by phdinparenting on March 1, 2010
When people talk about baby-led weaning, they are usually referring to the method of introducing solid food that involves introducing finger foods and allowing the baby to decide what and how much to eat, rather than the parents spoon feeding baby food. Over time, feedings at the breast are gradually replaced with self-feeding of the [...]
by phdinparenting on February 10, 2010
Last Thursday morning, I kissed Emma goodbye, dropped Julian off at school with a big hug and kiss and continued on to the airport. I hopped on a plane and headed off to Los Angeles, via Chicago for a conference for work. I met up with friends, learned new things, saw a bit of Los [...]
by phdinparenting on November 23, 2009
This is day three of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on.
Featured Posts – Of diapers and toilets
Toilet training can be a very stressful or [...]
by phdinparenting on November 13, 2009
I often like to check back and see what I wrote a year ago. Last year, on this date, I wrote about the Long lasting value of a woven wrap. In that post, I included a few pictures of my Storchenwiege, which has since been passed along to my friend Jane.
I still believe in the [...]
by phdinparenting on August 30, 2009
I love both of my kids and they generally get along well. I wrote a series of posts about how bringing a second child into your family doesn’t have to be as scary as you think it might be. I’ve given people tips on playing with two kids of different ages at the same time. [...]
by phdinparenting on August 28, 2009
About a year ago, a reader asked me if I would be willing to share a list of my favourite parenting books. I said “sure” and that is when I started working on page called My Parenting Library. Last night I finally found the time to finish an initial version of it.
My Parenting Library
You [...]
by phdinparenting on July 31, 2009
A lot of parents that practice attachment parenting or natural parenting point to the fact that this is the way children are often raised in traditional societies. This is true, to a great extent, but there is one big exception. In our society we seem to feel that practicing attachment parenting means that the parents [...]
by phdinparenting on July 17, 2009
My third and final guest blog post just went up on the Canadian Family blog. Today I’m giving my personal perspective on my reasons for choosing attachment parenting:
Fostering meaningful and rewarding relationships
Head over there and check it out and drop me a comment with your thoughts.
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by phdinparenting on June 28, 2009
A lot of people objected to my last post for a lot of different reasons.I addressed a lot of them in the comments, but I wanted to rehash one of them, using some new, less offensive and perhaps more easily understood analogies this time.
A number of people said that if you have tried gentle methods [...]
by phdinparenting on June 26, 2009
Photo credit: “At the end of a very long day” by KitLKat on flickr
There was some banter the other day on twitter comparing sleep with sex. I’m not sure if it originated with or ended with Ann Douglas, but the conversation at some point came around to the intro to her book Sleep Solutions for [...]
