“Don’t feed her solids yet, she’s too young!”
“She should have shoes on when she goes out.”
“Stop touching her cheeks and she’ll stop drooling.”
“You should supplement with formula, it doesn’t look like you have enough milk.”
Some of this advice comes from well-meaning friends. Some of them come from meddling relatives. What do all these phrases [...]

I used to read baby advice books voraciously. I wanted to make sure that I was doing everything I could to make sure that my babies were getting what they needed from me so that they could grow up to be brilliant, self-assured adults. So I read a ton of advice books, perused [...]

Breastfeeding is something is one of the most personal aspects of motherhood. The baby is being nourished form the mother’s body in a way that excludes the rest of the world from participation. So why is it that everyone else seems to feel they have a say in it?
Some mothers catch flack from others for [...]

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As a soon-to-be mom or the latter, you will find that you are bombarded with propaganda advocating the benefits of breastfeeding and about a million how-to guides in every shape and size. Breastfeeding seems to be one of those topics that escapes popular knowledge and conversation until you yourself are pregnant. As soon as [...]

I got an unusual call yesterday: a call to mediate clashes in potty training ideology between my step brother and my step mother. Isn’t that interesting? I got called because, after having 5 kids, they liken me to something akin to a “expert” in the area of potty training. The object of the disagreement? A 3 year old child who staunchly refuses to use the potty. Of course, both sides have very different ideas on how to fix this whole “problem”. I myself have talked with pediatricians and even a…