I’ve now read in two places (one of them being this book, the other being a magazine article) that baby monitors emit radio frequency radiation similar to that of cell phones. In fact, the Women’s Health article claims that monitors emit more than cell phones do. Now granted, you don’t hold the monitor next to [...]
Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
14 Apr
What’s really in our food? Pesticides, MSG, and Food Dye
I believe it is very important to feed your children organic food free of artificial ingredients. I recently recommended the book Superbaby, which has a chapter on how to feed your child. The section on pesticides and food additives is particularly compelling. I thought I’d share some of the information from that chapter here: By [...]
26 Mar
Raising book lovers
Books are really important to me. And I believe it’s important that my children learn to love and cherish them as well. This happened to my first born, so when my second child was born, I assumed he would naturally be drawn to books as well. Turns out he wasn’t. At 11 months, I could [...]
20 Mar
Superbaby
I think the title of this book is off-putting. I doubt that most parents really want to raise a “superbaby.” Most just want to do the best they can. Perhaps focusing on the parent rather than the child and calling the book Superparenting would have been better. Regardless of the title, I think this is [...]
9 Mar
First baby food
When my baby turned 6 months old, his pediatrician suggested we start giving him fortified rice cereal to ensure that he was getting enough iron. Of course, my pediatrician knows by now that I wouldn’t be doing that. I told him I believed he was still getting iron from my breastmilk (which isn’t much, but [...]
16 Jan
Baby food
We are currently working on shaping my 7 month old’s tastes. Well now, this actually has been going on since he was conceived, as research seems to suggest that fetuses can taste what Mom eats in the amniotic fluid (which caused my husband to request I consume spicy food while pregnant to create a child [...]
10 Jan
Natural medicine
I do almost all our grocery shopping at a store that does not sell standard medicines. So if I want a painkiller or cold medicine, I have to go to a separate store, or buy homeopathic substitutes from my grocer instead. This happened to me this week. I was at the natural grocery store and [...]
5 Jan
Brain Rules for Baby
John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist with a passion for the brain, has written a book I enjoyed called Brain Rules. But even better is his latest book specifically about children under five–Brain Rules for Baby. This book tells parents what science has really shown us about the developing brain and how to make your [...]
31 Aug
Babies and routine
The August 9, 2010 issue of Time magazine had an interested blip about the importance of routine for young babies. I know many parents think babies are so portable and that putting them on a schedule too soon is unnecessary. But the article claims that “keeping young children on a stable schedule of activities–with consistent [...]
26 Jul
Breastfeeding
This blog is almost 3 years old and I’ve only written about nursing once. I believe it is one of the most important things you can do for your child, so I’m adding another post about it. Recently, I recommended the book Real Food for Mothers and Babies by Nina Planck. Now I’d like to [...]
