Tag: parenting
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Parents Need Sleep
Read more: Parents Need SleepA Q&A about the sleeplessness that comes with parenting. Chronic insomnia has been linked to a range of medical problems, from loss of concentration to high blood pressure…But can getting up throughout the night to tend to new baby cause long-term health problems as well?
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Being a Baby
Read more: Being a BabyJonah Lehrer asks What’s it Like to Be a Baby? [B]abies don’t have a spotlight of attention: They have a lantern. If attention is like a focused beam in adults, then it’s more like a glowing bulb in babies, casting a diffuse radiance across the world. This crucial difference in attention has been demonstrated indirectly in a…
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Brain Push-Ups
Read more: Brain Push-UpsAnother vote for getting up and moving around: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? (NYT) M.R.I.’s provided a clearer picture of how it might work. They showed that fit children had significantly larger basal ganglia, a key part of the brain that aids in maintaining attention and “executive control,” or the ability to coordinate actions and…
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School Phobia
Read more: School PhobiaKids who really don’t want to go to school addressed in When a Doctor’s Note for a Student Doesn’t Help (NYT): The first time I realized I was complicit in school refusal, I didn’t even know the term. It was about a decade ago, and my patient was a boy who seemed to be spending his…
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Postpartum Depression (for Dads Too)
Read more: Postpartum Depression (for Dads Too)Study: Fathers As Well As Mothers Have Higher Depression Risk During First Year Of Child Being Born Approximately one-fifth of all fathers and over one third of all mothers experience an episode of depression within the first 12 years of their child being born, with the first year having the highest risk, says a British study