Word: infantalizing
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BABY BLUES Postpartum depression is no fun for Mom, but scientists say it's pretty bad for infants too. A new report shows that depressed mothers and their newborns both have high levels of the stress hormone cortisol and that an infant's cortisol level remains high for months--even after Mom's level returns to normal...
...ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend to fail most often when they have a high infant-mortality rate. Clinton's National Security Council quickly found itself boning up on prenatal care...
...overboard, though. There's nothing wrong with flipping a light on in the middle of the night to change a diaper or comfort a crying infant. And don't change your daytime routine; children need plenty of daylight to thrive...
...much good if there's a baby in your life right now. Since the proposed remedy isn't at all onerous, however, and since most kids don't develop a fear of the dark until after age two, it seems reasonable to turn the lights out in your infant's room...
From the day Karen Katz brought her infant daughter Lena home, there was a certain question she knew was coming. It finally came when Lena was four; she turned to her mother and asked, "Mommy, how come I'm not the same color as you?" Her heart stopped. Then Katz, who is white, explained to her cinnamon-skinned, Guatemalan-born daughter that they came from different countries. Over the years, Katz and her husband Gary Richards have consciously worked to minimize the distance between themselves and their daughter: taking a trip to Mexico to surround Lena, now eight, with people...