"Co-sleeping next to your baby is incomparable" says James McKenna, PhD.
We were able to show in a sleep laboratory that the same mom-baby pair sleeping together over successive nights varied tremendously in the amount of breastfeeds the baby would get by virtue of the baby either sleeping in bed with the mother and/or sleeping in another room very close by. Indeed it really surprised us, it was almost like two different families that were being measured.
For a new parent, every extra minute of sleep is gold. Learning how to help your baby to sleep longer is a way to avoid painful sleep training for the baby and sleep deprivation for parents. The trick is to catch your baby as they're starting to wake up and see if you can gently soothe them back to sleep. Elizabeth Pantley is one of the world's leading experts on how to get babies to sleep.
Discipline tends to focus on changing children: teaching them to have more respect and self-control and punishing wrongdoings so that the negative behavior is extinguished. Which is why it often fails. Great discipline focusses on changing parents, not fixing kids.
Technology in education has become the new trend that is being followed when designing lesson plans and course work in a variety of leading institutes and organizations. While this seems like an alluring option for the children, as parents there are numerous thoughts and queries that come to mind when it comes to e-learning. Listed below are some extremely important questions that parents must ask before enrolling their kids in such curriculums.
Additional Resources:
Books:
Brill, Stephanie A. The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Eaklor, Vicki L., Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States (New Press People’s History)
Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Green, Eli R. and Luca Maurer. The Teaching Transgender Toolkit (Available through http://www.teachingtransgender.org/)
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History
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A child's first and most important teacher is their parent. It is the parent who teaches the child throughout those early years in life. It is the parent who supports or monitors homework and concept development at home. Lifelong learning is what most of us do for a lifetime, help develop that love of learning at different age. Holidays provide an ideal opportunity to encourage this attitude.
