Most parenting experts advise that parents use extreme caution in allowing their child to watch television, especially younger children, and even with educational programming. And many attached parents either don’t allow television at all or only sparingly. But there are some of us who do allow our children to watch TV and are OK with it.
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ALSO THIS WEEK on The Attached Family:
- To Intervene or Not? Deciding When and How to Get Involved in Another Parent’s Situation – We’ve all seen it – a mother losing her temper toward her child in the grocery store, or a father treating his child in a detached, ignoring or even hostile, way at the park. What should we do? What do we say?
- Dawn of Attachment: Why Mom’s Emotions Matter During Pregnancy – During my second pregnancy, I was a ball of nerves. While my baby was born healthily, she was of a lower birth weight than what was expected – only six pounds for a term baby. My doctor had warned me that not finding a way to lessen my anxiety during the pregnancy could cause problems, and one of those was a low birth weight. That the mother’s emotions can affect the unborn baby’s development is certainly credible, but exactly how does this happen?
- Yelling Works…and Other Parenting Myths Busted – Susie Walton used to yell at her kids – a lot. “The older they got, the more I yelled,” recalled Walton, an International Network for Children and Families (INCAF) parent educator and author of Key to Personal Freedom who busted a few of the powerful myths outlined in her book during an INCAF teleseminar last week.
- A Win-Win Situation: How to Teach Sportsmanship – Board games, sports, and other competitive activities can bring families closer together as well as teach children important lessons about character.
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NEXT WEEK on The Attached Family:
- In Utero Bonding for Fathers
- PLUS 4 more articles for parents-to-be and parents of toddlers, children, and teens!
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