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Secondhand media smoke: When children are exposed to violent inflight content "Gratefully, today all flights are free from cigarette usage. Yet, the secondhand media smoke emitted from poorly chosen in-flight entertainment is also poisonous and toxic, especially to children."	You Can’t Tell A Mom Has Postpartum Depression By Looking "You can’t tell when a mother has postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD or PTSD just by looking at her. People assume it should be fairly obvious, except it isn’t. We can get pretty good at hiding how we are feeling and what we are thinking.
A List Worth Printing, Posting, Remembering, & Living Soul-Building Words for the Ones You Love: When they need to know how much you love them: * You make my day better.	Jamming with toddlers trumps hitting the books "Abundant research over past decades has accumulated evidence of the effectiveness of music education in accelerating development in IQ, academic and social skills, empathy and self-discipline," Mr Letts said.
Attachment Parenting: Tips on responding with sensitivity when it’s hard "As an API Leader, I frequently give parents guidance on ways to respond to their children in different situations. But the truth is, I don’t always follow my own advice.	10 Ways to Love Them By Listening “There will be days when nothing you do feels like enough. There will be days when smiles don’t come easily and harsh words are spoken too quickly.
Stay involved in your child's school life I have worked in education for 15 years, and I have seen many different situations with students. There are students who go home to parents who ask how their day was and have a genuine interest in their day at school.	The beauty of art, a book and a conversation Some of the qualities I cherish most about my daughter are her love for reading, writing and art. I feel as though they allow me to see the world through her eyes.
Stop the Unfair Ads on YouTube Kids From the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: "If we don’t act now, Google could singlehandedly demolish long-standing rules that protect children from harmful commercialism.	Parenting without punishment in a punishing world I will admit it. I'm a bit of a control freak. Actually, I need a lot of control, because I am a "Type-A," "Judgement," "Gold color" or whatever those personality tests use to describe me.

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