Category: Parenting
Parenting
Pregnancy Diet Tips for a Developing Baby
Overview When youre pregnant, your babys sole source of nourishment is you. What you eat dramatically impacts his growth, weight, brain and organ development. While you need about 300 extra calories a day to help sustain your pregnancy (more if youre expecting multiples), dont use them …
Helping our Children Appreciate What They Have
There is no better time than in the midst of a global economic crisis to re-evaluate our financial priorities; especially when we are a generation of parents who are raising children in an age where electronics change and become obsolete almost the minute we have purchased something and walk …
How to Eat When Pregnant: Take Care of Your Baby, Indulge Yourself, Too!
If youre seeking a prenatal-diet role model, dont look to me. Before I was pregnant I was the kind of girl who generally ate very well. I regularly cooked with organic ingredients, steered clear of processed foods, stuck with a mostly …
Why Homeschool?
LIKE most parents, I had always looked forward to the day when my children would finally enter school. During those early years of infancy and toddlerhood, when mothering feels like such a full-time job, I would assure myself that I would have a glimpse of my old life back …
Ask Dr. P: Help! My son has become unusually aggressive since his new brother arrived…
Dear Dr. P, I just had a new baby and my first child (a 4 year old boy) who is usually loving and sweet, has started to become aggressive with me and his new baby brother. He’s been pushing and hitting me and pulling on his brothers …