From the monthly archives:

July 2008

A baby’s smile is like a drug

by Isaak Kwok on July 10, 2008

in Parenting

Now I know why my wife goes into a trance when Matthew smiles when he was a baby. Anyway, I’m just kidding about the trance part. But she’ll be totally engrossed. Apparently, a new mother gets a high like a drug hit when her baby smiles back. And it can be as addictive as taking […]

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Most of us know that a mum’s postnatal depression causes babies to develop more slowly than other children. But a recent study shows that antenatal depression can have the same effect. The research, reported in the BBC News article, says that antenatal depression can cause up to a third greater chance of cognitive or behavioral […]

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Recently, I came across two news articles that talked about the impact on a child from what the parents eat and drink. In the first article from News.com.au, the emphasis was on putting across the idea that the drinking habits of dads and mums have the most impact on the future alcohol consumption of a […]

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