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@godsson1988 I can pronounce anthrax.

@heismerciful Oh absolutely not. Newborns may have some recognition of the sounds and rhythms of mother, but it isn’t anything they can make sense of or ascribe meaning to - they have no context for anything. They couldn’t see or smell in the dark and fluid filled womb, and sounds were muffled...

@gopolang I too am entertained by the concept of organic laundry detergent.

@heismerciful Anecdotal, but my son was adopted from an orphanage. We took custody at 6 months. Two weeks later we returned with him to the orphanage for necessary paperwork and a medical check, and the ladies were so excited to see him again. They gathered around and his primary caregiver...

@aegisheart Well if our kids are comparable then I’ll offer my other standard bit of unsolicited advice. (Did you ask? No you did not; feel free to ignore, as most unsolicited parenting advice should be ignored.) The early elementary years are the easy part and are unlikely to set your kid off...

@aegisheart You could be describing my son at 3. He is now 20, a top student at a top university. Happy and thriving. At 3-4 I was agonizing over what to do. His giftedness was obvious. He was behaviorally well adjusted at his montessori preschool. But his maturity was low and he had a fall...

@whittney1234 Little league was awesome for this - there was a lot of emphasis on sportsmanship. At the end of every game they lined up to say “good game” to every opponent player, win or lose. It wasn’t optional, and it started in Tball (which didn’t have winners and losers since every player...

@lampmark123 My point was that we normally had one parent at home at a time during meal prep. (We also used daycare for the work hours overlap.) And the parent at home handled both child care and dinner prep. Had two adults been home we could divide and conquer, so no need for screens, while...

@lampmark123 You don’t need to be rich to eliminate screen time. Zero is simply not that uncommon. You can make dinner without using videos to entertain them. (We ate dinner every single night, and since we staggered our work schedules there was only one parent home until dinner.) And obviously...

@petrasophie The problem with acceleration is that they catch up. Let’s say you skip second grade. Third grade is now challenging - great! They’ve learned so much more than they would have in second. By the end of the year they’ve mastered all the third grade standards. Now what? Put them in...

@bel13 This is an important point. If you carefully measure the powder, add it to then bottle, then add water to the X ounce line, you will get a higher concentration (less water) than if you measure the powder then add X ounces of water. So OP should first go back and reread the directions...

@religiondoctor According to our daycare, 3 in a row is better than alternate days. This way she never knows what to expect, so every day is Monday.

@holy_venom95 This may indeed be the right answer, though you should not do this. The guidelines are for typically developing healthy kids. Your kid is a little bit “off balance” in some way, and if he is either a little dehydrated or having some gastric motility problems, intervention is called...

@lampmark123 The whole period from 6-12 months is basically one long transition. Or 4-12 months if you start then, though a 4 month old is mostly tasting, not really eating. Keep the diet healthy (breast milk will take care of that for you, but so will formula), make sure he’s getting iron...

@chhow I do not know if the worry is common but constipation can be real and serious. My son didn’t poop for a few days and his hardened stool had to be manually removed; the doc was clear that this needed to be considered urgent. Sure, breastmilk/formula should be perfect. (Though not...

@justifiablerebel It may not help much but it certainly won’t hurt. She has some stored away, so if there’s even a chance of a marginal benefit (possibly some effect on virus actively replicating in mucosal tissue? There’s no evidence for that but it isn’t implausible) there’s probably no better...

@lululala It correlates with intelligence. g is better but has its own limitations. We can only study what we can measure, so we try to work around the flaws as best we can. Or else walk away. Some prefer ignoring anything we cannot accurately measure, but that is not my perspective.

@crocodilehuricane I was the only girl in a male dominated family. Until our generation started having kids. My brothers all had girls, and the eldest brother’s girls have only had girls. I’m the only one with boys. Which I adopted, so … yeah, anecdata strikes again.

@chuckf I knew what you were getting at, but if you want to avoid pushback maybe just phrase the actual question. For example, “does anyone here know if the sample size was sufficient to power that conclusion? It seems small to me.”

@clemi My point on the large shift was based on the principle that a small difference in the mean of a bell curve produces a large shift in the extremes. It’s not going to send little Janey to the top of the class but population wise the effect could be significant. I agree that the other...