Posts on ‘November 12th, 2006’

I’m well aware of the fact that baby massage is beneficial to babies. What I hadn’t heard before, however, is that it can also directly benefit mothers (my emphasis added):
Gentle massage reduces the level of stress hormones in babies under a year old, helping them sleep better and cry less, a British study finds. But [...]

I’ve always felt that children are told too often what they’re doing wrong and not praised enough for what they do right. My past experience working with children in different environments has taught me that when a child grows up with a lot of negative attention, their negative behavior escalates because it’s what gets them [...]

I get a lot of information from the internet. If it’s not an emergency, I’ll look up health-related information online before going to my doctor and asking about it. The times that I’ve asked a doctor about a specific issue, I always found that I’m sitting there in the office listening to him tell me [...]

We received this toy as a gift, and it was one of the first things Pooky was able to hold and play with in her little hands. Skwish, made by Manhattan Toys, is made up of colorful wooden rods and round balls. It’s all held together by flexible bands, so it can be “skwished” in [...]