Instinctive Parenting Trusting Ourselves to Raise Good Kids

by Calhoun, Ada

• ISBN13: 9781439195802
• ISBN10: 1439195803
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-12
• Publisher: Gallery Books

Summary

What's the right way to parent? Any playground or online message board will supply as many opinions as there are adults. Every subject-from sleep training to time-outs to pacifiers-has its supporters and detractors, and every viewpoint can be backed up by a truckload of research and statistics.

Author Biography

ADA Calhoun was the founding editor-in-chief of the award-winning parenting site Babble.com. She is the co-author of Tim Gunn's book Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work, and has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, the New York Post, Salon.com and TIME magazine. She lives in New York City with her husband and young son.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Baby	p. xi
Shelter
On Shelter	p. 3
A Design Opportunity	p. 7
Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?	p. 11
How Much Negativity Is Helpful?	p. 15
Registering: What You Really Need in the Nursery	p. 20
The Thousand-Dollar Question: What Kind of Stroller Are You?	p. 23
The Disgrace That Is the United States's Leave Policy	p. 26
How We Think About Work	p. 31
The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Babies	p. 33
Blogs and Confessions	p. 36
TV or Not TV?	p. 40
Scary Stories	p. 43
Travels with Baby	p. 47
Marital Relations	p. 49
Those First Weeks Back from Leave	p. 55
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go	p. 65
Other Peopled Kids	p. 68
Share and Share Alike	p. 73
The Great Sleep-Training Debate	p. 77
Anxiety-Free Potty-Training	p. 84
Postpartum and Postpostpartum Depression	p. 86
Sex and Marriage	p. 89
Language Development Craziness	p. 92
The Almighty Nap	p. 95
Danger!	p. 97
School Days	p. 101
Becoming Like Our Parents-or Not	p. 105
First Friendships	p. 110
Cracking the Whip	p. 112
How Many Kids Should You Have?	p. 117
Food
On Food	p. 123
Defending Junk	p. 127
Booze and Drugs (For You, Not the Kid)	p. 130
Time to Eat	p. 132
A Modest Proposal: Bring Back Home Economics	p. 134
Snack Attack	p. 137
Allergy Alert Days	p. 139
The Evil Turkey Sandwich	p. 143
The Breastfeeding Wars	p. 146
Eating Together as a Family	p. 152
Love
On Love	p. 159
The Name Game	p. 163
When You're Pregnant, It Takes a Village... to Judge You	p. 167
A Reality Check for Working Parents	p. 174
Here's to Babysitters	p. 180
Birth Stories	p. 185
Labor Plans and Realities	p. 189
Real Abuse	p. 193
The Hard Parts	p. 196
Party Time!	p. 202
Illness	p. 209
What We Talk About When We Talk About Our Kids	p. 213
Having Faith	p. 216
In Praise of Stepchildren	p. 220
Separation Anxiety	p. 222
Regretting Your Life	p. 225
Vaccination Paranoia	p. 231
The Great Circumcision Debate	p. 235
Toddlers in Love	p. 238
Taking Along the Kids	p. 242
Conclusion: Battling the Jinx	p. 251
Endnotes	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 261
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