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

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. [...]

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You should not be drunk while caring for your baby

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 [...]

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When a mother breastfeeds she is protecting her child from herself

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

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 [...]

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