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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
The Four Grapes of Wrath
Why will you fight? I mentioned four consistent sources of marital conflict in the transition to parenthood. Left to their own devices, all can profoundly influence the course of your marriage, and that makes them capable of affecting your child’s developing brain. I’ll call…
Sleep loss makes new parents hostile
Sleep-deprived people become irritable—far more irritable—than people who are not. Subjects saddled with sleep debt typically suffer a 91 percent loss in their ability to regulate strong emotions compared with controls. The decline in general cognitive skill is equally dramatic…
Newborn sleep is nothing like adult sleep
The central fact of newborn sleep is that it is nothing like adult sleep. Instead of gradual cycles of descent and ascent, newborns have only two speeds, christened by sleep researcher Richard Ferber as “active sleep” and “quiet sleep.” Both speeds are established in the womb…
Rushing baby into a crib (fragment)
want to immediately put their kid in a crib. Frustratingly,
Consistent bedtime rituals help babies sleep
Sleep experts agree that one thing helps babies make this transition: having a consistent bedtime routine. This starts with choosing a time for bedtime, sometime around 6 months old. Around the world, bedtime depends upon baby and culture. Whatever time you choose, the advice…
Nighttime Attachment Parenting
Nighttime Attachment Parenting is an extremely infant-driven style. Advocates encourage feeding on demand rather than keeping to a schedule, both day and night; wearing your newborn in a sling during the day; and sleeping with your baby at night (whether in the same bed or in…
Cry-It-Out and graduated extinction
It is not often a scientist becomes so engrained in popular culture that his name becomes a verb. But that is exactly what happened to pediatric sleep researcher Dr. Richard Ferber, a prominent advocate of the Cry-It-Out method. Dr. Ferber, founder of Boston’s Center for…
Baby is an inexperienced ally, not an enemy
Remember, baby is not your enemy in his struggle to learn to sleep independently, just a very inexperienced ally. Your goals are naturally aligned, after all. From an evolutionary perspective, it is in his brain’s best interest to learn how to stay awake during the day, then…
Generalization Of Word Meanings During Infant Sleep : Nature Communications : Nature Publishing Group
Sleep helps babies learn new generic words and consolidate their meanings
Sleep consolidates memory and promotes generalization in adults, but it is still unknown to what extent the rapidly growing infant memory benefits from sleep. Here we show that during sleep the infant brain reorganizes recent memories and creates semantic knowledge from…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Ethic is not unegoistic
Ethic as Man's Self-Analysis.—A good author, whose heart is really in his work, wishes that someone would arise and wholly refute him if only thereby his subject be wholly clarified and made plain. The maid in love wishes that she could attest the fidelity of her own passion…
Virtue
Sleep of Virtue.—If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Saltare dal letto per scacciare il sogno
Salta in piedi per bruciare le fasi intermedie degli indugi, cancellare al più presto la nostalgia del sogno.
Una notte di zanzare e di caldo
La stanza è piena di zanzare straordinariamente cattive e persistenti: lui ha la schiena e le gambe e le braccia e le mani e perfino lo spazio tra le dita che gli pizzicano in modo insopportabile. Si gira tra le lenzuola pesanti di sudore, scivola fuori dal letto, attraversa la…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet
In my room, I lay down to sleep. The move to the slum would give me time: it was a hard solution to the visa problem, but a practical one. I felt relieved and optimistic about it, and I was very tired. I should’ve slept well. But my dreams that night were violent and troubled…
Swept toward someone else's destiny
Abdullah and Tariq slipped effortlessly into a sleep that eluded me. I lay back, in a darkness that smelt of incense and beedie cigarettes and cheap kerosene, and I sifted the events of the last few days through a sieve of doubt and suspicion. So much more had happened during…
In India the heart guides better than the head
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There’s nowhere else in the world where that’s quite so true. I didn’t know that then, as I closed my eyes in…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Everyone you see is asleep
Personally, as a young Marxist, religion had always been anathema to me, and it was only because I was ill in bed and couldn’t find anything else to read that I opened Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, a book I had been sedulously avoiding for years. But the psychology I…
Waking up just long enough to know I'm asleep
WHAT “THE ACID” (as I was coming to think of it) had done was to blow my so-called spiritual trip out of the water. I saw that Advaita philosophy had become just a way of coasting along, vaguely assuring myself that I was consciousness itself from time to time. It had no…
Worry Less About Children's Screen Use, Parents Told - Bbc News
Screen time and children
The recommendation that children should not use the devices in the hour before bedtime comes because of evidence that they can harm sleep. The devices stimulate the brain, and the blue light produced by them can disrupt the body's secretion of the sleep hormone melatonin. While…