A place for me to talk about parenting and fatherhood.
From the category archives:
Besides making sure your wife is healthy during pregnancy, recent research at the University of Adelaide has discovered that it’s equally important to be healthy before she becomes pregnant. This was reported in The Advertiser yesterday.
The research found under-nutrition from fertilisation to day seven altered the development of the fetus and placenta and “programmed” the [...]
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As reported on BBC News, research done by the Imperial College London found that mothers who were severely stressed out during pregnancy had higher incidences of their babies being born with mental and behavioral problems such as ADHD and lower IQ levels.
The cause is the increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the mother [...]
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Do remember not to spank your kid. Otherwise, you might end up in jail.
Well, that’s if you’re staying in California. Fox News reports that a California assemblywoman has put up for approval a legislation that would outlaw spanking children three and under. Offenders will be sentenced to up to a year’s jail or a fine [...]
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Are parents in the US crazy?!
They are demanding that their pediatricians prescribe stimulants meant for Attention-deficiency hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children to ‘help’ their children do well academically in school even their child might not be suffering from ADHD. The parents want their doctors to prescribe Ritalin and Adderall for “academic doping” - the use of [...]
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