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I Love Doing Art, Just Not With My Kids: How I Got Over Myself And You Can, Too! Underestimating the amount of mess that can be made with two cans of shaving cream was a grave error in judgment on my part.	Celebrate Your Village! Warm relationships with other adults sustain us when we're struggling or feeling isolated. These "villages" are our connected communities of caring adults who support us in nurturing our relationships with our children.
6 Tips To Getting Our Kids To Listen Better Parents spend a significant amount of time talking to kids.	Add More Hygge To Your Child’s Holiday Season What an exciting time of the year! The wish lists are getting longer. My evening walks have been so pleasant as neighbors are putting up twinkling lights that add such cheer to an otherwise gloomy night.
Quick Ideas To Reconnect With Children This Holiday Season Making time to share time and interests with your child refills your love-tank and lets you bounce back after struggles. Small moments in every day, every week, keep us connected.	The Family Table: Stay Connected Through Mealtimes Why regularly share the evening meal as a family? How does this routine activity serve us beyond nourishment? It has been said that the table is the heart of the home. At the table, we rejoin the pack in a timeless ritual.
2022 November - December Training For The East Asia, Oceania And Americas Time Zones	The Kids Are Not Alright: What you can do to help children struggling through the pandemic.
The role of families in human flourishing: My long-read Q&A with James Heckman On childcare: "And good public policy would join them and would nourish both the family and these programs, forming a bond... read more	How a hot sauce-themed YouTube show helped me get to know my sons better "We finished all the milk in the house around question seven, which is when we switched to vanilla ice cream.

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Responsive Feeding is Embedded in a Theoretical Framework of Responsive Parenting Black, M. M., & Aboud, F. E. (2011). Responsive feeding is embedded in a theoretical framework of responsive parenting. The Journal of Nutrition, 141(3), 490-494. While more research is needed, the benefits of responsive feeding on child nutrition and growth are expected to be as great as responsive parenting is to child outcome.	Responsive Feeding and Child Undernutrition in Low-and Middle-Income Countries Bentley, M. E., Wasser, H. M., & Creed‐Kanashiro, H. M. (2011). Responsive feeding and child undernutrition in low-and middle-income countries. The Journal of Nutrition, 141(3), 502-507. Research on responsive feeding is promising, but more research is needed to define child outcomes.
Quality of Early Maternal-Child Relationship and Risk of Adolescent Obesity Anderson, S. E., Gooze, R. A., Lemeshow, S., & Whitaker, R. C. (2012). Quality of early maternal–child relationship and risk of adolescent obesity. Pediatrics, 129(1), 132-140. Insecure attachment with low maternal sensitivity at ages 2 and 3 years was associated with teenage obesity.	Perceived Partner Support in Pregnancy Predicts Lower Maternal and Infant Distress Stapleton, L. R. T., Schetter, C. D., Westling, E., Rini, C., Glynn, L. M., Hobel, C. J., & Sandman, C. A. (2012). Perceived partner support in pregnancy predicts lower maternal and infant distress. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(3), 453-463. Women who received more support from their partners during pregnancy experienced less distress postpartum and reported that their infants were happier, too.
Effects of Group Prenatal Care on Psychosocial Risk in Pregnancy: Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial Ickovics, J. R., Reed, E., Magriples, U., Westdahl, C., Rising, S. S., & Kershaw, T. S. (2011). Effects of group prenatal care on psychosocial risk in pregnancy: Results from a randomised controlled trial. Psychology and Health, 26(2), 235-250. Group prenatal care was helpful in increasing self-esteem while decreasing social conflict and depression among at-risk women.	Effective Intervention Programming: Improving Maternal Adjustment Through Parent Education Farris, J. R., Bert, S. S. C., Nicholson, J. S., Glass, K., & Borkowski, J. G. (2012). Effective Intervention Programming: Improving Maternal Adjustment Through Parent Education. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 40(3), 1-13 Parent education delivered through in-person and web-based classes was helpful for mothers of toddlers, whether or not they reported behavior problems.

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