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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Or does it?

by phdinparenting on August 25, 2009

When I wrote recently about my experience being bullied, a number of well meaning people noted, in Nietzsche style:
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
That is what we tell ourselves when we’ve gone through difficult times and survived. We want there to have been a purpose, a reason, why we suffered. That is [...]

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You should not be drunk while caring for your baby

by phdinparenting on July 8, 2009

Photo credit: Dan4th on flickr
There has been a lot of media attention lately on mothers who were arrested while apparently breastfeeding drunk. There is emphasis put on the word breastfeeding. Like it is a horrible and awful sin to be drinking while breastfeeding. A few examples:

A drunken mother was breast-feeding her five-month-old baby at the [...]

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When a mother breastfeeds she is protecting her child from herself

by phdinparenting on January 26, 2009

The title of this post is the finding of a new study by Australian researchers. They found that women that didn’t breastfeed were more than 4 times as likely to be reported for maternal neglect than those that breastfed for 4 months or longer. The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is Australia’s largest longitudinal [...]

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My Discipline Spectrum

by phdinparenting on October 20, 2008

Often when I hear people talk about their discipline style it sounds unrealistic or ineffective. I haven’t read or heard any single approach to discipline that really made perfect sense to me. There are elements of many approaches that I like and elements of others that I abhor. Rather than taking one approach and running [...]