Parents Matter

Parenting is not without its challenges. No one needs a license to parent. But without some basic know-how, what should be rewarding can be overwhelming. So share the lessons you've learned, the challenges you have overcome, and the joys that are yours as parents.
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Mental Health

If we destroy the environment that provides the nurturing that children need why are we expecting anything more than anxiety and fear?

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Medical Error vs. Measles

Should parents be concerned about measles or about these other statistics? Here are the stats from Brave AI Medical Errors (Overall): Recent research estimates that over 250,000 preventable deaths occur annually in the U.S. due to medical errors, making them the third-leading...See more

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Early smartphone ownership at age 12 is linked to higher risks of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep, placing your child on a riskier long-term developmental path https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/01/16/smartphone-ownership-age-12-health-risks.aspx?

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Modern children’s content (especially fast-paced YouTube shows like CoComelon) is engineered to maximize watch time through rapid cuts and constant dopamine triggers, creating addictive patterns in toddlers that lead to overstimulation, irritability, and severe tantrums when...See more

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"She Proved Women’s Brains Change During Motherhood, Permanently. They told her motherhood was instinct. Hormones. Emotion. Something soft. Temporary. Something you went back from once the baby slept through the night. Then she put mothers in an MRI machine—and proved something...See more

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Answer Baby's cries! Researchers emphasize that the issue highlighted by MRI studies is chronic unresponsiveness to a baby’s distress — a repeated pattern of leaving infants to cry for long periods without comfort. This prolonged stress exposure affects brain regions tied to...See more

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Why is breast-feeding important?? Deep Mind Thinking She, Katie Hinde, discovered that breast milk changes its formula based on whether the baby is a boy or girl. Then she found something even more shocking: the baby's spit tells the mother's body what medicine to make. 2008...See more

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Teaching Children

Yes! I would just add to #2 ... and our family follows God's rules.

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Parenting is not without its challenges. No one needs a license to parent. But without some basic know-how, what should be rewarding can be overwhelming. So share the lessons you've learned, the challenges you have overcome, and the joys that are yours as parents.