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What Makes a Good Parent?
My mom and me, circa 1983In my Purposeful Conception Course: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy, we spend a day thinking about what kind of parents we want to be. I wanted to share my personal list (it’s really just a rough draft brainstorm) with all of you to get your thoughts (and, by the way, the attributes are not in any sort of prioritized order):- Patience: Children require an amazing amount of patience. Developmentally, they pass through stages and need different things. At each stage, they need adults who understand what they’re going through and can respond with patience. For example, when babies are learning
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Week One Post-Partum Advice
I hope these little snippets of advice don’t seem like I’m trying to proclaim myself some sort of expert.… Read MoreHa!
I’m just trying my very best and jotting down my thoughts about it, in case it’s helpful to any of you out there.
I’ve been at this motherhood thing a little over a week now. I was taken off-guard by some things and well-prepared for other things.
Here are some of my thoughts about how to have the best possible first week at home with your infant (of course all of our babies are different in many ways, so take my advice for what it’s worth!):
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Henry J.’s Birth Story
It seems that writing one’s birth story is a little like looking at a piece of Pointillism art, something along the lines of Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. The closer you stand (to the painting and the birth experience), the more raw, unfinished, discrete, and incoherent the separate pieces are. The farther back you stand from the painting (and the more time and emotional distance you put between yourself and the birth), the more it starts to blend into a cohesive whole. By writing about the experience so soon, I worry that I haven’t given myself the distance and space I need to smooth out the experience. … Read More
