by Stacey
A researcher from the University of California Berkeley and mother of two, says that moms do their kids a favor when they make time for themselves. Hurray! According to this blog post by Christine Carter executive director of the Greater Good Science Center, happy mothers may make happy children.
Carter says she regularly takes time […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Here’s some crazy crap for you: According to a new documentary film making its way through politically conservative circles, there’s an ominous decline in childbirth rates around the world such that if we all don’t start procreating fast, armageddon is surely afoot. The movie is called “Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human […]

by Stacey
With Valentine’s Day just days away, I thought why not do a post on how to fight with your spouse? According to this write-up by Dr. Christine Carter from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, how parents fight and resolve conflicts can have a huge influence on their children’s health and […]

by Stacey
My little baby Sasha is off to a bad start. Back in June there was a study showing second-born boys have lower IQ’s than their older brothers presumably because their parents have more time to read aloud and talk in intelligible sentences when there is only one kid around. Now I find out that […]

by Stacey
Last Sunday the NY Times Magazine ran a series of articles about college. Getting in, paying for it, advice from the recently graduated, that kind of thing. I know I’ve ranted about this before, but why is this whole getting into college thing so freaking insane? Whenever I read about it, I want to […]

by Stacey
Despite what pediatricians have been telling beleaguered parents for years, colic may more than just a benign nuisance. “Few common afflictions of infancy may be as difficult to endure,” writes Dr. Jerome Groopman, the Recanti Professor at Harvard University in an article aptly entitled “Crybabies,” that appears in the Sept. 17 issue of The […]

by Stacey
Mental illness among college students is on the rise and with it comes a growing debate over parents’ right to know. According to this LA Times article, school officials feel bound by student confidentiality laws not to divulge information to parents while others claim that parents should be informed especially when a student becomes […]

by Stacey
It wasn’t until I went to college that I made my first real best friend. The kind that sticks, for life. She was in art school and I was in journalism school. We met and almost instantly fell in love. We spent all of our time together, thought everyone else sucked in comparison to […]

by Stacey
Although my second son is only six months old, I can already see that a bond has formed between him and his older brother. No one can make that baby laugh like my three-year old jumping up and down on the bed. Take a quick look.
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I just learned that this fondness for each other […]

by Stacey
There have been a number of articles in recent years describing a common and cozy relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies. The deal usually looks like this: a drug company pays a doctor money, usually in the form of speaking fees at conferences, and the doctor in turn “teaches” his or her peers about […]