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Lauren Wilde • 7 cards
Exasperated, Tom called through the curtain, “Cassandra, do you know a washing song?” Instantly she began one called Some Ducks Don’t Like Puddles. To Tom’s relief, Bazzle subsided.
Lisa Kleypas • Chasing Cassandra: The Ravenels
Step 1: Create Your Station
Jill Spivak • The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
Step 1: Prepare Your Sleep Station
Jill Spivak • The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
Children who are intelligent, alert, attentive, sensitive, and completely attuned to the mothers well-being are entirely at her disposal.
Alice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
throughout this the mother should stay in close communication with the child, by embracing him or looking him in the eye. But she must also make him understand that “he can’t have everything right away. It’s essential not to leave him thinking that he is all-powerful, and that he can do everything and have everything.”
Pamela Druckerman • Bringing Up Bébé
Parenting
Making children share, however, only makes them clutch their possessions more tightly. Forced sharing undermines goodwill.
Adele Faber • Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
The modern style of parenting is not just exhausting for adults; it is also based on assumptions about what children need to thrive that are not supported by evidence from our evolutionary past. For most of human history, people had lots of kids, and children hung out in intergenerational social groups in which they were not heavily supervised. You
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