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  • Evidence Based Parenting Carnival

    A new community resource to help us not mess up By Jeanne Garbarino The cyber mom-o-sphere might be one of the largest internet communities out there. Between the brutally honest musings of Dooce, the ridiculous hilarity of The Bloggess, and the “delightful snarkiness” of Mom 101, there lies at least a gazillion blogs waxing poetic about the true – and often very unkept –  face of motherhood. These sites have done an incredible servi…

    Authored by on April 2, 2013

  • Motherhood, war, and attachment: what does it all mean?

    The antebellum tales Scene 1: Two fathers encounter each other at a Boy Scout meeting. After a little conversation, one reveals that his son won’t be playing football because of concerns about head injuries. The other father reveals that he and his son love football, that they spoke with their pediatrician about it, and that their son will continue with football at least into middle school. There’s a bit of wary nodding, and then, back to the…

    Authored by on May 16, 2012

  • On Parenting, Science, and Trust

    The following was originally posted over at The Mother Geek (RIP) in January of this year.  The guest author is Alice Callahan, who is a research scientist turned stay-at-home mom. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband and 14-month-old daughter. Alice writes about the science of parenting, as well as her adventures in mothering, at scienceofmom.com.  You can also find Alice on Twitter. Via Creative Commons Having a PhD in sci…

    Authored by on August 2, 2012

  • Parenting paranoia comes in different forms

    …ls because they are not “a big scoop.” Yet they often show that the initial, Big Headline Finding was overblown or even incorrect. That brings me to an example that really pushes my buttons — childhood immunizations. In 1998, Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published a study in the prominent British medical journal the Lancet. The paper examined a hypothesized association between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism, but the…

    Authored by on May 19, 2013

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …e X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains. Why do we take in fat anyway? Fat is a necessary nutrient for everything from our nervous systems to our circulatory health. It also, under appropriate conditions, is an excellent way to store up…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • The Fatherhood Adjustment

    …assed quickly, and I got on with the business of being a dad. I was ready for it. In fact, I was excited about it. But not all men are ready for fatherhood. Why not? What makes some people ready to become dads? According to a 1982 study, four key factors make men embrace the role of fatherhood. First, and most obviously, is whether the man ever intended to become a father. Second, whether the man has a stable, loving relationship with his partner…

    Authored by on May 14, 2013

  • Science is For Everyone, Including (Gasp!) Moms

    Looking through magazines aimed specifically at women (including most parenting magazines), you might be forgiven for thinking that women have no interest in science or technology. I’m not the demographic these publications are aimed at, of course: I’m not even a parent, much less a woman. Of course there are plenty of magazines consumed by women and men alike, though I can also think of some that are far too guy-focused. That’s not what this…

    Authored by on November 23, 2011

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    Protip: Don’t diagnose based on speculation. by Jessica Wright                Attention journalists: If you’ve been calling people “nuts” or “deranged” in your stories, the Associated Press is recommending that it’s time you stopped. This guideline — along with the common-sense assertion that writers shouldn’t diagnose individuals with a mental illness based entirely on speculation — is part of a new recommendation added to the AP styleboo…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Sizing up the mother in me

    …been raising a lot recently, as tiny toes and wobbly heads populate my Facebook newsfeed and I begin to apprehend the magnitude of the fork that’s fast approaching down my road. I bring up The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein’s 1964 tale about an apple tree who’s happy to be used in a dozen ways by a boy she loves even as she’s fully dismantled in the process and receives no apparent gratitude in return. It’s one of the most popular children’s book…

    Authored by on June 5, 2013

  • On this Father’s Day, let’s remember the allofathers, too

    A big brother, practicing the art of allofathering. By Emily Willingham, DXS managing editor On Mother’s Day, scientist and blogger Kate Clancy wrote an excellent post at Scientific American about allomothers, the people in your circle of friends and family who support mothers in their mothering. In thanking the allomothers in her life, Clancy included in that list her husband because men can be allomothers, too. Although this  si…

    Authored by on June 16, 2012

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