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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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#1 Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most women breastfed their babies. However, the historical record shows that there have been no shortage of remedies for so-called lactation failure.
#2 In the United States, wet nursing was less common than it was in Europe. By the 1860s or so, mothers found a new option for feeding their babies: homemade formula.
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Book Preview: #1 The Visual Cliff experiment is a test of depth perception and how it is developed. It involves a checkerboard pattern that lies flush under a Plexiglas surface for half of its length, but then slants some four feet, creating the illusion of a sheer drop beneath the solid surface.
#2 The infant's cry is pitched in such a way to get the attention of the adult brain....
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#1 The modern parent struggles to raise children who are not as respectful and disciplined as they were when they were children. Many parents feel as though they are not making any progress with their children, and they are growing more and more frustrated.
#2 The gap between children and adults has never been bigger. We struggle to live up to our image of what parenting...
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#1 Estrangement is the condition of being physically and/or emotionally distant from one or more family members, either by choice or at the request or decision of the other. It can be roughly divided into three types: total cutoff, emotional estrangement, and on-and-off estrangement.
#2 Estrangement can be temporary, and it's up to you and your child to make sure it...
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#1 The foster parents were trained to use a system of points and levels to modify behavior. The kids would start on a low level and earn points every day for completing various tasks, with which they could then buy a range of privileges.
#2 I made two charts for the children. One for each child. On each chart, I had written three statements. For each successfully completed...
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#1 We have to stop overparenting our babies. We have to recognize that they are already learning everything in the early months, and that they are strong and capable. We must provide them with simple, beautiful spaces instead of rushing them to learn everything we think they should.
#2 The Montessori approach can be applied from birth to raise secure babies who are ready to explore...
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 I, too, had a love-at-first-sight romance with a Dutch boy named Bram, who was studying abroad in Florida when we met. We had a modern twist on a traditional romance, with him sending long handwritten letters as well as frequent emails and phone calls.
#2 I was apprehensive about moving to the Netherlands and having a Dutch baby. I wanted my son to have a happy childhood,...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 Toxic people are difficult to identify, because their toxicity is not easy to discern. They are often good at hiding it, and they can be difficult to deal with because we're always dealing with a two-to-five-year-old in an adult's body.
#2 Toxic people cannot tolerate consideration of others. When trying to have a conversation with them, they are self-referential...
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#1 I want to give my kids the confidence to dream out loud. I want to show them that ridiculously good things do happen, even if they seem completely unbelievable. I was given the opportunity to do something with my creativity and passion, and I want to give that to my kids as well.
#2 When you articulate a new dream, you should receive a response similar to Philip's....
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#1 The mother myth is so strong that if your mother was unloving, you'll inevitably run into a wall of resistance from external forces that defend her. You may be met with skepticism, sharp criticism, and counterproductive advice.
#2 The pain of having an unloving mother is intensely lonely and isolating. It is common for even a well-meaning friend or relative to discount...
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#1 My new housemate is 85 and widowed. She likes to garden and talk about paintings. I'm not fussed by her idiosyncrasies, as long as I can keep my distance from her.
#2 I live with a very old and very peculiar woman named Winnie who doesn't like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise.
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Book Preview: #1 When I was pregnant with my son, I felt a sense of his individual development already underway. I wondered if his personality traits were due to the conditions his parents experienced while in the womb.
#2 The field of fetal origins is generating a lot of excitement among scientists. They believe that the prenatal period is where many of the springs of health and...
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#1 The author recalls a story of two boys, five and seven years old, who declared war on each other in a supermarket. The mother had to abandon her half-filled cart to chase after them. The boys turned to Tactic B: the split up. The mother had to run in two directions to shout at them.
#2 Parenting is a difficult, challenging process, and raising responsible, well-rounded...
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Book Preview: #1The word parenting first appeared in America in 1958. It is a poor fit to the scientific reality, as parents are not designed to shape their children's lives. They are designed to provide the next generation with a protected space in which they can produce new ways of thinking and acting that are unlike any that we would have anticipated beforehand.
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#1 The ancient Greeks had a problem. The gods looked down from their ethereal playground atop Mount Olympus and passed judgment on everything the Greeks were up to. And if the gods weren't pleased, they were swift to punish. They didn't have to be kind; they didn't have to be just; they didn't even have to be right.
#2 Our culture and religions all agree that...
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#1 I was a foster carer for the past twenty years, and I had taken in two teenage girls named Hannah and Hayley. They had been placed with me by Social Services after their previous foster carers couldn't cope with their bizarre behavior.
#2 I was assigned to take care of two foster children, Sam and Tess, who had been moved fifteen times. They had cerebral palsy and...
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#1 We have a strange relationship with nature. We seek it out to stroll, run, swim, commune, and socialize in. We also kill it for sport and place it in cages for our amusement. We literally chew up and swallow large amounts of nature daily to fuel our bodily selves.
#2 The idyllic nature outing is not as idyllic when you consider the threats that exist outside of your...