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Golden Rule of Parenting: Sleeping Through The Night

Toddler in bed crying
[Guest Author] This article on sleeping through the night is the eighteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. I’ve lost track of him but found his URL has been “camped on” by someone trying to gouge somebody, using its popularity my friend created. I’ve found most of his articles (I think) and will keep them here for safe keeping until he wants them back (or this blog suffers a similar fate).

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Parenting: Be selfish

Helicopter parenting - not good
[Guest Author] This article on Helicopter Parenting is the seventeenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. I’ve lost track of him but found his URL has been “camped on” by someone trying to gouge somebody, using its popularity my friend created. I’ve found most of his articles (I think) and will keep them here for safe keeping until he wants them back (or this blog suffers a similar fate).

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Three Magic Questions of Breastfeeding

breastfeeding: questions/answers
[Guest Author] This article on breastfeeding is the fifteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with from sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants it back.

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Parenting: My Malaprop Mom

Malapropism: Undevoted Attention
[Guest Author] This article on Medical Malapropisms is the fourteenthin a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.

His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back. This one seems to be a shout-out to his mother (perhaps on Mother’s Day or for her birthday) and is similar to a post I wrote about “Yogi-isms” a while back.

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Parenting: Seventh Grade is a pivot point

7th grade boys wrestling team
[Guest Author] This parenting article on the seventh grade being the pivot point is the thirteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
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Parenting: Good behavior is expected, not rewarded

Good behavior expected not rewarded
This article on expecting good behavior is the eleventh in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
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Parenting: Talk To Strangers

In this delightful talk about talking to strangers, Stark explores the overlooked benefits of pushing past our default discomfort when it comes to strangers and embracing those fleeting but profoundly beautiful moments of genuine connection. [Additional communication video]

Talk To Strangers
Most aren’t dangerous and if we don’t, we lose

Kio Stark has always talked to strangers. She started documenting her experiences when she realized that not everyone shares this predilection. She’s done extensive research into the emotional and political dimensions of stranger interactions and the complex dynamics how people relate to each other in public places.

She authored the TED Book When Strangers Meet, in which she argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don’t know.

Her novel Follow Me Down began as a series of true vignettes about strangers placed in the fictional context of a woman unraveling the eerie history of a lost letter misdelivered to her door. Additionally, she wrote Don’t Go Back to School, a handbook for independent learners.

She writes, teaches and speaks around the world about stranger interactions, independent learning and how people relate to technology. She also consults for startups and large companies helping them think about stranger interactions among their users and audiences.

When Should School Start For Teens

Dr. Troxel is the mother of a teen who she claims needs extraordinary measures to awaken for the early start times of their school district. And it’s not due to Snapchat, social life or hormones she says; but rather: public school policy!

School Start Times
When is too early and why it matters

Wendy Troxel is not only a mother of a teen but is a fairly renowned sleep researcher and explains that “teens don’t get enough sleep” and that “early school district start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.”

Being a Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh she should know. Much of her research is funded by the National Heart-Lung institute, the NIH and the DOD and focuses on the interface between sleep, social environment and health as well as its implications for public policy.

The bottom line: “school start-times for teens should not be before 8:30 AM.” What time does your teen need to report to school?

 

Parenting: Discipline

Parenting includes discipline - natural consequences the best

“Discipline,” that’s a 200-pound-gorilla-in-the-room topic if I ever heard one!

These days the so-called “do-gooders,” “haters” and “conspiracy theorists” all over the internet have made poor parents fear even the word “discipline”… let alone actually giving it to their child. But “discipline” is different than “punishment” you know.
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Doctor’s Talking About Puberty and Sex

When doctor's and parents don't talk about sex education

It seems that talking about puberty and sex is one of most every doctor’s LEAST favorite tasks. I know that because some research projects have studied the subject in patients of all ages with diseases of all types and by doctors of all specialties.

Well, it shouldn’t really surprise any of you because it’s your least favorite talk with your kids too (assuming you’re a parent)—and they’re YOUR kids.
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Discipline in a Non-Confrontational Parent →

[This site is one of those “blogspot” sites which is still there (including my referenced page) but is no longer actively added too – which thing makes me sorry for you… Alas, her last post was in 2019… You really should have seen it in its day!]

 
How does a non-confrontational parent discipline her boys? Click on the link above or below to give it a read; and see one mother’s experience trying to raise a “tribe” of four boys—especially as they turn into teenagers.

[http://tovskytwins.blogspot.com/2009/12/disciplinarian.html]

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