Connecting with Older Children during Pregnancy
When Kathleen Mitchell-Askar was pregnant with her first child, she wrote in her journal nearly every day about what she felt and the changes she was experiencing. Once a week, she went to a prenatal yoga class and she listened to special meditations to connect with her baby. If she wasn’t at work or caring for the home, she used to just lie down and feel her baby sweep her elbows and knees across her belly. Pregnancy with her second child brought an entirely different experience…
What Happens to the Brain When We “Lose It”
Learning neuroscience isn’t something every parent has time for, so Dr. Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, authors of Parenting from the Inside Out, developed a simple and surprisingly accurate model of the brain that parents can make with their own hands, which helps us understand what goes on in there. When we know what’s going on in our children’s brains (and in our own), we are better able to respond sensitively and appropriately when emotions run strong.
LAST WEEK’S ARTICLES:
Playful Parenting with Older Children and Teens by American parenting educator and API Leader Kelly Bartlett
Reflections on Motherhood by American poet and children’s author Barbara P. Benjamin
Love Not Always Floodlights and Fireworks, but Sometimes It Is by American blogger Megan Oteri
Breastfeeding on Demand is OK
Pregnancy Fun (and Mocktails)
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