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		<title>Kate&#8217;s Pregnant! Why We Care</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When news of the Duchess of Cambridge&#8217;s pregnancy broke on Monday, a gasp of excitement went round the world. The hashtag #royalbaby took over Twitter, internet searches for &#8220;Kate Middleton pregnant&#8221; went up by 18,305% and Kate and William&#8217;s official website crashed. Congratulations flooded in from all corners, while newspapers took to speculating about everything from the baby&#8217;s name to Kate&#8217;s maternity wardrobe. It&#8217;s a fetus frenzy that is unlikely to abate for the next six months. But while the fascination with the Duchess&#8217; pregnancy is global in scale, even everyday mothers are familiar with the hullabaloo that comes with expecting a child. Strangers approach in the supermarket to lay a hand on your stomach and ask &#8220;When are you due?&#8221; Friends and grandparents-to-be spend hours discussing cribs and baby showers. Neighbors offer cooking help if you&#8217;re lucky and unsolicited advice if you&#8217;re not. MORE: Why a Pregnant Kate Middleton Is In the Hospital All of this raises the question: why is an impending birth so captivating? After all, it&#8217;s not exactly a rare occurrence — 252 babies are born around the world every minute. The answer, says Meredith Small, professor of anthropology at Cornell University and author of &#8220;Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent,&#8221; is embedded in our evolutionary past. &#8220;You know that saying, &#8216;It takes a village&#8217;? It&#8217;s actually really true,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Human infants are so dependent, they can&#8217;t sit up, they can&#8217;t eat on their own. How could that happen if there wasn&#8217;t at least one person, but usually more people, who are ready to do that kind of stuff?&#8221; The rest is natural selection 101: being ready to do that &#8220;kind of stuff&#8221; improves the replication rate of an individual&#8217;s genes (more of their babies will survive and reproduce), meaning caring about babies is a trait that has become predominant. &#8220;Emotionally, psychologically, we are evolutionarily designed to respond to the look and feel of babies, and hearing about them,&#8221; says Small. &#8220;It&#8217;s so ingrained in our genes that it&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75466&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Your 2-Year-Old Be Using an iPad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Baby Touch: Peekaboo&#8221; to &#8220;Moo, Baa, La La La!,&#8221; iPad apps for babies are flooding the market. Developers say the apps are educational, and busy parents know that a digital babysitter can buy them a few minutes of valuable time. But is the iPad a healthy thing for young kids? Apple&#8217;s iTunes now stocks more than 700 apps for children, including ones that promise to &#8220;develop hand-eye coordination and focusing skills in young babies&#8221; or teach &#8220;fine motor skills&#8221; to infants &#8220;from 0 to 2.5 years old.&#8221; As Healthland reported on Tuesday, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has advised parents — again — to eliminate screen time for children under 2, citing concerns about language delays and disrupted sleep. The academy&#8217;s new report drew on studies showing that TV, whether it&#8217;s the parent or the child watching, interferes with &#8220;talk time&#8221; between parent and child, which is crucial to language development. Does the TV effect apply to iPads too? That&#8217;s not clear. &#8220;We just don&#8217;t have the data yet,&#8221; says Dr. Ari Brown, a pediatrician and member of the AAP. Perhaps it depends on how you&#8217;re using it. Tablets used like a TV should fall under the same guidelines, says Tanya Altmann, a Los Angeles-based pediatrician and author of the best-selling parenting book Mommy Calls. However, she doesn&#8217;t rule out the possibility that interactive apps may have some value for toddlers. &#8220;In some ways, applications are just newer versions of the game that we used to play when we were kids — you tap the cow and it says &#8216;moo,&#8217;&#8221; she says. But even apps that simulate conventional toys don&#8217;t teach children the crucial skills that come from physically engaging the world in three dimensions, says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital. He points to iPad apps that replicate building blocks and Legos. &#8220;Surely we would not want that to substitute for actually getting blocks and building something,&#8221; he says. &#8220;This is not how the real world<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=45318&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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