28th January, 2012 - Posted by Drboo - 2 Comments
It is just after lunch and today X has eaten…… Cereal (a couple of spoonfuls) Toast with jam A biscuit Hot chocolate A breadstick Pasta with peas and cheese The scrapings of the bowl we made peanut cookies in (we bake almost every day) So, a quick glance will tell you that X eats sugar. » Read More
4th January, 2012 - Posted by Drboo - 2 Comments
Did you know – you probably do – that telling your child “eat x then you can eat y” will increase increase their dislike for x? And if you say “if you are good you can eat y” you will increase their liking for y? So, if we were being sensible, we would tell our » Read More
6th November, 2011 - Posted by Drboo - 1 Comment
Labels are for tins. Not children. It strikes me that, when our children do not conform to some imagined set of behaviours or abilities people are quick to label them – the Terrible Twos are just one example of this. But are we right to fear the tempers of our toddlers? And what should we » Read More
16th August, 2011 - Posted by Drboo - No Comments
The big news this month is that X now uses a potty / toilet! He is still in nappies at night, but during the day (even this week when he has had a bug giving him chronic diarrhoea up to 10 times a day) he asks for the toilet or potty. I am so proud » Read More
12th September, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - 11 Comments
When does breastfeeding become “extended”? 6 months? 12 months? 2 years? This was not one of the questions I asked in my recent survey about thoughts about breastfeeding (doh!) but what I found is this – many people don’t know the actual recommendations about how long to breastfeed your child for, or, in fact, why » Read More
9th July, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - 1 Comment
We are busy working on a new website, so apologies for the lack of new articles recently. I am busy putting together the “extended” breastfeeding article while my lovely husband creates a beautiful new site where the articles will be stored separately from a new “blog” area. But I couldn’t let this one pass: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10465473.stm » Read More
16th June, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - 6 Comments
It seems I can’t open a paper or my laptop at the moment without seeing another report of another baby sling being withdrawn in the U.S. Before I get into this, you should know that far more knowledgeable people than I have written about baby carrying, so this will be a whistle-stop tour. Look at » Read More
4th June, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - 5 Comments
There has been lots of media coverage recently on the “crying it out” technique – giving the impression that there are two camps: one of MeanMummies who leave their babies squealing in darkened rooms until they fall asleep, exhausted (parents and baby, I expect) and a second of distinctly crunchy Earth-Mamas who gather their little » Read More
25th March, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - No Comments
A recent headline in the Daily Mail proclaimed: Baby DVDs fail to boost word power: ‘Einstein’ show could do more harm than good1 They went on to state that toddlers watching these DVDs had worse vocabularies than those who didn’t watch them. Other headlines have added to parents’ fears that television could be bad for » Read More
10th March, 2010 - Posted by Drboo - No Comments
Moving onto solids – a decision made more difficult through parents having to wade through the controversy, myth, conflicting information, and out of date advice. In America, weaning usually means stopping breast milk or formula – in the UK it means starting solid food, which is how I am using the term throughout this article. » Read More