Word: infantalizing
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Denise and Alan Fields, parents of two and authors of the baby-product bible Baby Bargains ($15 at babybargainsbook.com) have helpfully outlined nursery necessities for first-time parents and their friends. Several products, they say, try to exploit parents' fears of sudden infant-death syndrome, or SIDS. "Breathable mattresses" can give parents the dangerous impression that babies can safely be placed on their stomachs. In fact, the rate of SIDS has been cut in half by parents simply placing their babies to sleep on their backs...
...injured in walkers than in any other nursery product), and invest in a crib with a snug-fitting mattress that meets safety guidelines (check cpsc.gov) Otherwise fine cribs are displayed in stores (and in the current Pottery Barn for Kids catalog) filled with quilts and pillows that can suffocate infants younger than age 1. Parents who receive such bedding sets should dress their infant in a warm sleeper and hang the adorable quilt on the wall...
...parents and shower invitees would do well to purchase a good diaper bag, a stout stroller and an infant carrier or sling--remembering that it's not necessary to bring a new baby home to a roomful of gadgets. A safe bed, a good car seat and loving and attentive parents beat products like the Mommy Bear with "real" heartbeat ($20) every time...
These parallels and contrasts, when seen in conjunction with works showing Mary calmly accepting Gabriel's news or holding Christ in Il Pontoricchio's 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Saints Andrew and Jerome," illuminate different qualities of the Virgin as portrayed by artists over the centuries...
...doctrine was as sure of itself as the one I was raised in--how could I say for sure mine was right? In my private sphere of belief, secularization seemed as unwelcome and inevitable as a New Kids reunion tour. Christianity was not a conviction but a stage: An infant's pacifier to be exchanged inevitably for the pureed beets of intellectual agnosticism and perhaps the smashed-up crackers of pretending to understand Zen. And so, after this years-long process of disillusionment and personalization of faith, "Jesus Week" struck me first as the production of those less learned...