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@fanatical4christ Attachment according to attachment science is actually nothing to do with breastfeeding and everything to do with quality time spent together. What's needed for healthy attachment is safety (don't be scary/chaotic/abusive), time/consistency (you have this, as you live with your...

@allfree15 Don't worry. Nobody ever met a teenager who still feeds to sleep. It is biologically normal to feed to sleep at 4.5 months old. If it is actively causing a problem for you RIGHT NOW (and not because you're worried because books say it is a problem) then you could work on habit...

@bqmichael This is a really great answer!! I'd add that before I had children, I assumed that I would spank for discipline, simply because it was what I had experienced, seemed normal, and seemed (to me at the time) effective and not problematic. By the time my eldest was actually of an age to...

@nader1 We don't know that formula sitting heavier is why breastfeeding is protective. It might not even be true. It's probably multi factorial actually. That theory also may only apply to older formulas with a more casein dominant whey to casein ratio. It does seem anecdotally that formula fed...

@daxy24 People do that all the time haha. They always did even before thermal paper and before anyone knew of this link. They just don't always want a piece of trash. I used to ask "Would you like a receipt?" and if they said no, which was fairly regular, I would just throw it straight in the...

@dickwilson Why not? That is how we teach other skills. I helped my kid get dressed until they were dextrous enough to perform parts of it by themselves, like pushing an arm through a sleeve, and eventually I was just doing tricky buttons/zips/laces and then after a while they can even do those...

@chaolonggang We decided to go with phonics as an introduction to English reading as it's much more confusing with less well defined rules IMO. My idea was that German reading would be taught by school, but actually I found he just generalised the skill of reading into German. He did need it...

@wren84 Are you giving painkillers at night? That helps IME. I know nothing about how to actually tweak naps so I will let someone more knowledgable speak up XD

@cameronb67 Finding other families to spend time around helps with this a lot, and can have many other "village like" benefits.

@wren84 Teething? Too much sleep in the day so he's not tired? I doubt it's caused by anything you've chosen - it sounds like he's waking up for a reason.

@dorsettmm Maybe, but probably not as low as you would think. And even when it is low odds, there are so many people in the world it's likely it will happen to somebody.

@kickthichphattiren689 No, I just think that would be crazily insecure. It makes sense to have them stored at the vendor's side since they are already there.

@kickthichphattiren689 TBH this effectively already is true. Any store that is using EPOS (which is 99.99% most likely) has an electronic record of every single transaction and can reprint a receipt at any time. If you need to get that receipt reprinted, you can just take the card statement...

@seditthis Also the flip side: ADVICE YOU MAY GET: “We never sleep trained and it wasn’t bad at all, and our toddler is a great sleeper, you don't need to do it!” —> child is a naturally good sleeper AND/OR parent isn't particularly bothered by broken sleep and has a different idea of "good...

@servantheart We don't really know, but it's probably natural selection. Boy foetuses are more likely to be miscarried. Boys have a slightly higher chance of stillbirth and SIDS, and other causes of death before reproductive age (which is all natural selection cares about).

@yoshinat0r There's basically no reason to prevent this behaviour, and it could even be beneficial for him to do it, since despite the name "non nutritive" they do get some small amount of breastmilk from doing it. It's also helpful in terms of stimulating your supply - largely irrelevant at...

@helarikoski This is so true. At that age they are really hard to entertain sat in a static seat - at least toddlers and older can listen to audio books, enjoy songs, verbal games, play on a phone/tablet, look out of the window. A six month old is just going to be sad and confused that he can't...

@peakdixon My friend's daughter uses the pronunciation of her name to work out which language the person speaks! It's not this name exactly but for example if her name is Laura, when the person says Lora, they probably speak English. When the person says Lowra, they probably speak German.

@brianball Yes, this! Plus it's massively patronising, the idea that people are a general mass of stupid, immoral people who are out for their own destruction. I mean, yeah, people have varying levels of reading comprehension and messaging should not be too complex. But the destroying trust...

@linka81 Stayed pretty frequent until they night weaned, which was around 2 years old. I bedshared pretty much until then as well. It kind of bounced between hourly to 2-3 hourly to 4-5 hour stretches with no kind of pattern or sense to it, I learned to go with the flow after a while :D It was...