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Parents want sleep. We crave it, like we used to crave an exciting night out on the town or seeing the latest blockbuster movie. So why are we so pooped? This month’s Better Sleep Month series looks at ways to get healthier, more productive sleep for the whole family, from newborns to teens and adults.
First, visit our Attachment Parenting channel to find a trio of articles by sleep guru Elizabeth Pantley on getting babies and toddlers off to La-La Land. Then, it’s off to Your Family’s Health for another three pieces: ayurvedic tips for better sleep, pointers on getting enough sleep and sleep tips for teenagers. Pregnant? Check out the sleep tips for pregnancy in our Pregnancy, Birth & Fertility channel. And wrap it all up with yet another sleep tidbit from Elizabeth Pantley over in our Question & Answers channel.
But this month’s special features don’t stop there!
If you’ve ever wondered if you do enough for your family – or if you do too much – then visit our Attachment Parenting special feature, Duty, Guilt and Being There for Your Kids. Our contributors look at parental guilt, caring vs. caring too much and whether we are sometimes actually addicted to our children.
Do you spank your kids – or do you sometimes feel like it? Maybe you spank “sometimes, but never in anger” or “only in dangerous situations.” Find out what two of our most respected parenting experts have to say about Spanking, with perspectives from Elizabeth Pantley and Mark Brandenburg.
And finally – Eat Your Veggies!. Find out why you should gobble your greens in this Your Family’s Health special feature. We serve up articles on using fresh greens before they go bad, enticing kids to eat their vegetables and even growing baby veggies.
Look for the rest of our new articles – dozens more! – under the New This Month banner on our home page.
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And next month, in our June issue: Read the next in Linda Folden Palmer’s series of articles on breastfeeding and formula feeding. Dr. Palmer examines how “nursing” is much, much more than “breastfeeding,” and how both breastfeeding and bottlefeeding parents can make feedings a nurturing time that provide babies with actual developmental benefits. Stop by and see this article on June 1.
Being a parent is only natural, so why not parent more naturally? Let NFO show you how.
"The media have become the mainstream culture in children's lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it." -- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe columnist
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