Tag: babies

• In sweet music is such art

  I like to think I have had a long history of music, although I’m fairly certain my mother didn’t play Mozart to me in her womb -a lot of yelling maybe, but nothing with staves. And yet, even in those early proto-Holocene days, there was a general recognition that, at a minimum, music was probably […]

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  August 7, 2019

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  Anglophones, Anita Collins, Australia, babies, language development, Les deux solitudes, Misty Adoniou, music, music classes, music scales, musical notation, Prelude in C# minor, Quebec, Rachmaninoff, Rumpelstiltskin, theconversation.com, University of Canberra, Winnipeg

• Eternal Maternal?

  Some things are just not said, just not considered. They fall so far outside of our Weltanschauung they are inadmissible. And we take such comfort in their ubiquity that we no longer feel a need to discuss them. They are so self-evidently true, so axiomatic to our understanding of existence that they seem indispensable. Crucial… […]

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  October 25, 2017

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  altruism, Angela Saini, babies, community support, cultural assumptions, cultural norms, evolution, Guardian newspaper, instinct, love, maternal bonds, maternal instinct, maternal support, motherhood, mothers, musingsonwomenshealth.com, sacrosanct, survival benefits

• Crybabying

  I remember (sort of) my days in Elementary School, when one of the most devastating insults a little boy could receive was to be labelled a crybaby. I’m not sure why, really. Maybe it meant you didn’t fit in with the prevailing umwelt –with what you were supposed to be as a little boy- or […]

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  August 16, 2017

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  babies, Baby feeding, Canada, CBC News, children, colic, crybaby, Denmark, Dieter Wolke, feeding infants, fuss/cry duration, Journal of Pediatrics, meta-analyisis, normal variation, Rule of threes, UK, University of Warwick

• Time Out, eh?

  Time-outs to wring behavioural change from naughty children are all the rage nowadays. Everywhere you go there seem to be men sitting near their tantrum-laden little boys in the parking lots of stores, or women standing outside of cars fastidiously ignoring the screams of alternately pounding and pouting children confined within. Perhaps this has been […]

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  May 17, 2017

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  babies, BBC news, behavioural change, CBC News, children, Cleopatra, Dr. Arthur Staats, Dr. Montrose Wolf, Journal of Academic Pediatrics, obstetrician, pennies, plastic speculum, quidnunc, salad days, Shakespeare, social exclusion, terracotta statue, time-outs, University of Washington