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Phone-Sick At Camp (NY Times): "Camp is a sacred space to unplug and be able to learn independence and social skills." Get ready for camp season by trying one tech-free day per week.
What Every Parent Needs To Know About Water Safety (Huff Post): “Parents have to recognize a person who is drowning within 20 to 60 seconds.”
Choosing A School For My Daughter In A Segregated City (NY Times): How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system
Why Is American Home Birth So Dangerous? (NY Times): And what can we to make it safer?
The "Cheerio Challenge" Is Proof We Are Living In The Golden Age of Dad Jokes (BuzzFeed): Fun fact if you ever want to try the Cheerio Challenge--the current record is 16 Cheerios in a single stack!
Why Handwriting Is Still Essential In the Keyboard Age (NY Times): Teach children to be hybrid writers and increase activation of various brain functions
Emoji Women Can Now Get Pregnant, But They Still Can't Work (Slate): The push for more female emojis
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The Mindful Child (NY Times): A study of 4th and 5th graders participating in a 4-month meditation program showed improvements in cognitive functions and better grades.
In One Tweet, John Legend Perfectly Nails The Hypocrisy Of Mom-Shaming (Mic): “Funny there’s no dad-shaming. When both of us go out to dinner, shame both of us so Chrissy doesn’t have to take it all. We’ll split it.”
This Dad Sent The Funniest Photoshopped Baby Photos To His Wife (Elite Daily): What happens when mom goes back to work
The Most Whimsical Children’s Rooms And Nurseries In Vogue (Vogue): More room and nursery envy.
NEA’s Lily Eskelsen Garcia On What Teachers Do (Campaign For America’s Future): Teachers do more than just teach reading, writing, and math.
In This City, Parents Must Now Pay Up If Their Child Is A Bully (Huff Post): A new approach to tackling the bullying that occurs off school grounds.
Donating An Organ To My Son (NY Times): One mom’s story of feeling the clash of her identities as a mom and a physician.
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5 Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day Before Baby (FitPregnancy): Celebrate Mother’s Day as a mom-to-be.
MOTHER DAUGHTER ITINERARIES IN PARIS & NEW YORK (GOOP): What to do with your daughter this Mother’s Day.
A Place for Breast-Feeding Mothers at New York Area Airports (NYT): Seventh Generation is sponsoring the installation of four pumping and nursing pods in New York area airports.
This Experiment Shows What Happens To Your Body When Everything You Eat Is Organic (Fast Money): Swedish grocery chain Coop enlisted one family, and its urine, to demonstrate the difference eating organic makes.
A Flame Retardant That Came With Its Own Threat to Health (NYT): A look at the health impacts of flame retardants have.
To Eat Or Not To Eat: Pregnancy Myths Debunked (MBG): The things you should (and should not) eat during pregnancy.
POSTNATAL DEPLETION (Goop): What happens to a woman’s body and brain after pregnancy?
More Women Find Room for Babies and Advanced Degrees (NYT): The share of highly educated women who are childless in their mid-40s has fallen significantly over the last two decades, a Pew Research Center analysis says.
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Should Moms Manage The Money? (NY Times): “Moms who manage the money serve as role models who can counteract some of these problems.”
Building A Better Breast Pump, Not A Milking Machine (NY Times): Rethinking the design of the breast pump to be more efficient, portable, and comfortable.
Tearjerking ‘Thank You, Mom’ Ad Really Tugs At The Heartstrings (Huff Post): “It takes someone strong to make someone strong. Thank you, Mom.”
The Best Female Heroes From The World Of Studio Ghibli (The Guardian): “Many of my movies have strong female leads – brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.” – Director Hayao Miyazaki
This Startup Just Solved One Of The Biggest Challenges Of Breastfeeding (Fast Company): This tool gives moms data on how much their baby is eating.
10 Things I Naively Said To My Friends With Kids, Before I Had Kids (Scary Mommy): “Once upon a time, I didn’t have children. So, naturally, the idea of having children was that kids are simply an addition to one’s current lifestyle, like a house plant… Then, I had kids.”
Intimate Photos Of What Giving Birth Really Looks Like Around The World (Refinery29): Photographer Alice Proujansky’s images bring us one step closer to reckoning with how we think about childbirth.
Maternity Leave vs. ‘Me-ternity’ Leave, And What It Means For Work-Life Balance (Huff Post): “If you have employees clamoring for “me” time, you have an issue deeper than mom vs. non-mom; you have a work-life balance issue.”
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24 Toxic Skin-Care Ingredients + What To Use Instead – Infographic (Mind Body Green): An updated list of harmful chemicals to avoid in your beauty products and safe alternatives.
The Pregnant Therapist (The New York Times): Psychologist Jessica Zucker describes her feelings when working in women’s reproductive and maternal mental health while experiencing pregnancy for herself.
FDA aims to dispel ‘myth of the medication-free pregnancy’ (Chicago Tribune): Beginning June 2015, the Food and Drug Administration will require a new labeling system for prescription drugs in hopes of calming concerns over pregnant women taking prescriptions.
The Many Dances of Parenting (Huffington Post): The six phases of parenting experienced when watching your children grow.
Would You Wear Makeup in the Maternity Ward? (Yahoo Beauty): The discussion over the influence celebrity moms have on the average American woman to look glamorous after just giving birth.
10 Reasons Motherhood is the Easiest Thing Ever (Huffington Post): In celebration of upcoming Mother’s Day, one mom writes about the joys of motherhood and which aspects she most enjoys, and even finds easy.
17 Stunning Images Show Prima Ballerinas Balancing Motherhood With Their Dance Careers (Huffington Post): Beautiful photos of women being ballerinas in the studio, but above all, being mothers as well.
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Why We’re Obsessed With Ogling New Moms (The Cut): “The truth is that we’re still not that comfortable with the realities of childbirth, nor are we that comfortable with actual women’s bodies.”
Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues (Raised Good): “Childhood serves a very real purpose. It’s there to protect and develop young minds so they can grow into healthy and happy adults”
For A New Mom, Relentless Fatigue Could Signal A Thyroid Problem (NY Times): “If you don’t start to feel normal once the baby’s sleep schedule stabilizes, it’s worth getting your thyroid checked. A simple blood test can make all the difference.”
In IVF, Questions About ‘Mosaic’ Embryos (NY Times): New high-resolution, next-generation sequencing shows that about 20% of embryos have both normal and abnormal cells.
Why Becoming Parents Makes People Better Employees (Fast Company): “A new mom has superpowers and tremendous advantages as a result of this new identity – it’s why hiring managers should be looking at new moms as prospective MVPs.”
The Right To Privacy For Children Online (NY Times): There are no specific restrictions concerning what parents share about their own children.
Generation X’s Parenting Problem (Huff Post): “And like the generations of parents that came before us, we’re all making it up as we go along.”
Here’s One Thing That Chrissy Teigen WASN’T Expecting After Having A Baby (Brit+Co): and what push present she bought for herself.
16 Years Ago, A Doctor Published A Study. It Was Completely Made Up, And It Made Us All Sicker (Upworthy): “After years of controversy and making parents mistrust vaccines, along with collecting $674,000 from lawyers who would benefit from suing vaccine makers, it was discovered he had made the whole thing up.”