Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety

During my son’s first year, my husband and I were proud that we could hand him off to almost anyone and he was fine, happy even. Then I read that separation anxiety was an expected milestone for this age. Cue parental worry. “Have we had too many people care for him?” we wondered. “Shouldn’t he cl

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Raising A Happy Toddler: Catching Up with Dr. Harvey Karp

What does it take to raise The Happiest Toddler on the Block? We caught up with Dr. Harvey Karp — often called this generation’s Dr. Spock — author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block. He told us that even if you haven’t used his “Happiest Baby” method, it’s not t

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Parenting 101: The Benefits of Parenting Classes

Always wished for a manual to tell you how to parent? You’re not alone. So what’s a knowledge-hungry parent to do? Where do you find some solid parent-ed classes? Begin at the beginning with birth and early parent preparation. These classes are full of useful information about what to expect during

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Fact or Fiction: Demystifying Five Kids' Health Concerns

Parents know the world can be a dangerous place. So we do our best to keep our kids safe: We teach them to stop, look and listen before they cross the street. We childproof the cabinets and the windows, and buy childproof bottles of Tylenol. We strap them — securely and according to code — into thei

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Circumcision 101: To Cut or Not to Cut

Expecting a baby boy? Then one of the important decisions you’ll need to make is whether or not you’ll have him circumcised after he’s born. Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin, a fold of skin that covers the rounded tip of the penis. The infant is generally given a local anesthetic (a topi

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Negotiating a SAHD time

“You mean your husband is babysitting your kids and you bring home the bacon?” Lucy, my eighty-year-old neighbor from down the street asks. It’s been over three years since my husband, Brad, and I decided to switch it up: I went back to work full-time and he became a stay-at-home dad.  Since then,

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Parenting partnership: New dads

When Bernie Dorsey created a class to teach dads-to-be how to care for their newborns at Burien’s Highline Hospital in 1999, he had no idea how successful it would be. The real estate broker turned stay-at-home parent just wanted to share what he’d learned and teach future fathers what to expect aft

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Look Who's Cooing: Help Foster Your Baby's Language Skills

You swear you won’t do it — at least not in public. Then, when you have a little one, you suddenly find yourself speaking “baby talk” or “parentese,” using higher pitch, slower tempo and wider fluctuations in your intonation. You’re not alone. This type of “infant-directed communication” is used by

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