BLOG POSTS ON PARENTING ISSUES AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
For translations of blogs (espanol, Russian), scrolll down.
See also EvolvedNest.org
Many of these blog posts concern the Evolved Nest (Evolved Developmental Niche), a set of practices over 30 million years old for social mammals and particularly intense for human beings because we are born 18 months early compared to other animals (we should be in the womb another 18 months). These practices include: soothing perinatal experiences, responsiveness to needs (avoiding distress), physical affection (and lack of corporal punishment), breastfeeding on request, self-directed free play with multi-aged playmates and in the natural world, multiple responsive adult caregivers, and positive social support. For academic papers, see The Evolved Nest (Evolved Developmental Niche).
KINDRED LINK to my republished blog posts: http://www.kindredmedia.org/author/darcia-narvaez-phd/
GENERAL
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Babies
Five Things NOT to Do to Babies
How Modern Societies Violate Human Development
Raising a Baby Well: Like Climbing Mount Everest
The Single Most Important Thing to Know About a Baby
Bronco-Buster Parenting: Baby Unwise
Raising Boys to Be Disconnected
Relational Disconnection as Mental Illness
Make America’s Kids Healthy: Soothing Birth
Make America’s Children Healthy Again, Pt. 3: Togetherness
Make America’s Children Healthy (Part 2): Affection
Make America’s Children Healthy (Again): Nutrition
The ‘On-Demand’ Life and the Basic Needs of Babies
Why Does 'Caveman' Parenting Support Adult Mental Health?
Why Does “Caveman” Parenting Influence Adult Morality?
Baby Care: Baselines for Mental Health
Baby Care: 3 Rs for Raising A Happy Child
What Adults Did to Me at Birth: A Baby’s Point of View
SLEEP ISSUES:
6 Hidden Myths Behind Baby Sleep Training Advocacy
Child Sleep Training’s “Best Review of Research”
Parents Misled by Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Reports
Rebuttal to critique: Rebuking Bad Parenting Advice: Did We Go Too Far?
Baby Sleep Training: Mistakes “Experts” and Parents Make
'Let Crying Babes Lie'? So Wrong
Simple Ways to Calm a Crying Baby
Normal, Human Infant Sleep: Feeding Method and Development
Normal Infant Sleep: Changing Patterns
Normal Parent Behaviors and Why They Won’t Hurt Your Child
Normal Infant Sleep: Night Nursing's Importance
More Normal Parenting for Sleep
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep-Tiredness?
Understanding and Helping Toddler Sleep--Preparing Success
Bed Sharing With Babies: What is the Hype About?
Bedsharing or Co-Sleeping Can Save Babies' Lives
Avoid Stressful Sleep Training and Get the Sleep You Need
Flawed Sleep-Training Study Makes Invalid Claims-in the News
Staying in Touch With Real Babies: Correcting the AAPBIRTH
Painkillers for Childbirth? The Few Pros and Many Cons
What's the Use of Midwives and Doulas?
What if Jesus Had Been Born in the USA?
CIRCUMCISION
Myths about Circumcision You Likely Believe
More Circumcision Myths You May Believe: Hygiene and STDs
Circumcision: Social, Sexual, Psychological Realities
Circumcision Ethics and Economics
What Is the Greatest Danger for an Uncircumcised Boy?
Why Continue to Harm Boys from Ignorance of Male Anatomy?
Practical Tips for Men Distressed by Their Circumcision
Pro-Circumcision Culturally Biased, Not Scientific: Experts
Letter to “Happily Circumcised” Father
Protect (All) Your Boys from Early Trauma
Circumcision’s Psychological Damage
Practical Tips for Men Distressed by Their Circumcision
Letter to “Happily Circumcised” Father
Why Not Circumcise Your Boy? A Potential Link to Autism
BREASTFEEDING
Talk About Breastfeeding With Your Family, Friends and Doctor
Breastmilk Wipes Out Formula: Responses to Critical Comments
In Light of Last Week's Posts: Is Pushing* Formula Evil?
The REAL Truth about Breastfeeding
5 Things You Thought You Knew about Breastfeeding
The TREMENDOUS Benefits of Doing What is Normal: Breastfeeding
Myths you probably believe about infant formula
Your assumptions about infant formula are probably wrong
It’s Breastfeeding Week: Why should you care?
New Book, Unlatched, Explores Whether Breastfeeding Is Vital
To Doubters of The Importance of Breastfeeding
The Myth of “Breastfeeding is Optional”
PLAY
Happiness and Growth Through Play
Children May Be Playing, But Their Brains Are Working
Is Pretend Play Good For Kids?
Playing at School: More Important Than We Thought?
Does Too Much Screen Time Make Kids Sick?
What's Better: Indoor or Outdoor Play?
The Play Lady Tells Us How to Become Play-ers
How to Start a Play Committee in Your Community
How to Plan a Play Day in Your Community
Why Close a Street to Play as a Community?
Make Play Part of a Planned Community Event
Inter-generational Games Night
Community Service: Teens Make Great Play Advocates
Start a Play Club in Your School
The Benefits of Play Events in Your Community
TOUCH
Are you or your child on a (touch) starvation diet?
Mother’s touch of dead baby causes “miracle”
Premies: Maternal Touch Has 10-Year Effects
The Dangers of Spanking a Baby
Why You Should Cuddle Your Kids: Adult Health and Morality
MORE PARENTING: GENERAL
Creating a Peaceful World Through Parenting
Should Toddlers Be Medicated for ADHD?
Successful Motherhood Is a Collaboration
Research on Spanking: It's Bad for ALL Kids
What Happened to Ethics in Pediatric Medicine?
Baby-, Parent- or Life-Centered Parenting?
Ten Ways to Truly Respect Motherhood
Parents Should Know the Limitations of Science Experiments
Babies "don’t cry in Africa," why should they cry in the USA?
Blame the baby or blame the experts?
Dumb Parent(ing), Dumberer Child
Are you treating your child like a prisoner?
Undercare: The bane of American life?
Promoting Thriving in School-Aged Children: A Checklist
Is it good to make kids afraid?
What Does Good Parenting Look Like? You Decide.
Sacrificing Children's Health to Profits
“Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse”: Border Separation
Baby in the Senate! Is That Good?
Why Are (Some) Males’ Egos So Fragile?
Baby Crying? Don't Shame the Parents!
Evil Babies and Parenting (Alice Miller’s Insights)
How to Stop Disrespecting Your Children
Adult Justification of Child Humiliation and Mistreatment
Raising Children With Love or Dynamite?
Is Humanity's "Moral Sense" Inherited or Nurtured?
orality: Seeds Must Be Planted Rightly in Early Life
CHILDREN’S WELLBEING
Are You a “Childist?" Test Yourself
Babies Are Needy—Does That Bug You?
Do We Need Declaration for the Rights of the Baby?
The Decline of Children and the Moral Sense
Believing "children are resilient" may be a fantasy
How America Morally Fails its Children: What Needs to Change
Increase the well-being of children around you
BOYS
Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys
Why Worry About Undercared for Males? Messed up Morals!
Articles
On Babies, Sleep and Evolution at Buzzfeed
On Affection and Punishment at South Bend Tribune (Op-Ed)
http://cozybebe.blogspot.mx/2015/04/cinco-cosas-que-no-se-deben-hacer-los.html
http://mamasgallina.blogspot.com/
http://losquincemandamientos.blogspot.com/2013/07/de-verdad-nacimos-para-ser-egoistas-lo.html
El declive de los niños y del sentido moral
Milkmomstory. Мама и малыш. Истории о главном
http://milkmomstory.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%B4-%D1%80%20%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%81