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Breathing difficulties in sleeping young children can affect their neurological development - and increase the risk of behavioral problems when they're older. Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 05 2012 4:22 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Research, Sleep, behavioral neuroscience, Behavior, sleep disordered breathing

Goody Bags Leave a Bad Taste in Some Parents' Mouths

When birthday party gift bags go over-the-top, do the children notice? Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 01 2012 10:30 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, gifts, birthdays, parties

Parental Quandary Considered: A Daughter's Pregnant Teenage Friend

Advice to a mother whose daughter's teenage friend is pregnant? Be supportive, and let your daughters in on every difficult moment. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 16 2012 1:47 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, teenagers, teen pregnancy, parental quandary

For Younger Mothers, Out-of-Wedlock Births Are the New Normal

It's good that society no longer stigmatizes single mothers, but is it really good for 53 percent of children born to women under 30 to be born out of wedlock? Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 19 2012 5:35 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, single parents, marriage, marriage trends, unmarried mothers, single mothers

Losing a Father

Do you ever stop needing, or wanting, your parents? Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 07 2010 11:30 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, cleft lip, father's death, meera oliva

The Blessings of a B-Minus

To "helicopter parents" and "free range parents" add a new choice: "compassionate detachment." Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 12 2010 7:41 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, resilient children, wendy mogel, Blessings of a B Minus, Blessings of a Skinned Knee

I.V.F. Takes the (Nobel) Prize

The highest honor - 30 years after the fact - for a man who changed not just conception, but parenting. Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 8:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, IVF, test tube babies, robert g. edwards, nobel prize in medicine, in vitro fertilization

A Dying Mother's Letter

Elizabeth Edwards left a primer of advice. What would you write? Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 09 2010 8:20 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Elizabeth Edwards

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