Nursing mothers, rejoice: Uncle Sam will now subsidize your breast pumps. For years, the Internal Revenue Service has insisted that breast pumps — relied upon by many working moms so that their babies can eat when they’re not …
Parenting
Cribs, Presumed Safe, Injure 26 Children Every Day
It’s probably not sheer coincidence that a crib resembles a jail cell. After all, parents need a super-secure place to tuck baby and go do what they need to do — shower, for example, or sleep. But now a new study published …
Man with a Pan: Fatherhood and Cooking Q&A with John Donohue
During the workweek, John Donohue is an editor at the Goings On About Town section of the New Yorker. But most weekends — and on the rare weeknight when he has time — you can find him in his kitchen, cooking for his wife and …
Babies Who Start Solids Too Early More Likely To Be Obese
Ideally, babies are exclusively breast-fed for the first six months of their lives. Then, solid food — really, a misnomer since “solids” consist initially of soupy rice or barley cereal — is introduced. But a quarter of …
Are Working Moms to Blame for Childhood Obesity?
Moms, prepare to feel guilty, but only just slightly: There’s new data out there that link the more years you spend in the workforce with chubbier children.
Dad Helping with the Kids? Moms: Expect Conflict, Not Cooperation
We women talk a good game about wanting our partners to step up and parent alongside us — to change diapers, cut off crusts for pint-size picky eaters, handle the bedtime routine — but a new study has found that when dads do …
Why Parents Should Play Video Games With Their Daughters
If you can’t get the video-game controller out of your teenager’s hands, just pick up the other one. According to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, gaming may be good for teen girls’ mental health — so long as …
How Do Kids Handle Death? Better than Adults
My kids had their first intimate experience with death last week, and I think it was a growing experience for all of us.
Perspective on the Parenting Debate: Rich Parents Don’t Matter?
Before the Tiger Mother ever roared, author Judith Rich Harris stirred parents into a frenzy with a similarly controversial — if opposing and much more evidence-based — claim.
Breast-Feeding: It Takes a Village to Help Moms Succeed
That breast-feeding is good for mom and baby is old news, which is why U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin didn’t focus on that when she issued her first “Call to Action” last week.
You Snooze, You Lose: More Weekend Sleep Cuts Kids’ Obesity Risk
Kids sleeping late on the weekends? Let ‘em — they’re not being lazy; they’re cutting their risk of obesity, according to new research published online today in the journal Pediatrics.
Behind the Viral Video: What’s the Deal with ‘Baby Yoga’?
No, it’s not a joke from Stuff White People Like. Baby yoga is a real phenomenon, and it isn’t the drop-your-kids-off-while-you-do-real-yoga stuff of yuppie parenting. Instead, the practice of flipping and swinging newborns …
The ‘Tiger Mother’ Debate: Are Chinese Moms Really So Different?
Amy Chua, an author and professor at Yale Law School can all but add another identity to her bio, after her controversial essay on child-rearing methods came out in the Wall Street Journal last week: “one of the most talked-about …