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In recognition of World Breastfeeding Week, we kicked things off on Tuesday with a beautiful post about exclusive breastfeeding by Caridad. Today, we wish to share with you five posts on this topic that we’ve published since the birth of our blog. We’d like to bring attention to the fact that breastfeeding, along with the quality of child development services, are the two … [Read more...] about Breastfeeding Week and First Steps

I have two daughters, ages four and six. Friends who know me well know that I’ve been an advocate of breastfeeding throughout my children’s upbringing. With great effort and enthusiasm, I closely followed the World Health Organization’s recommendation to feed them solely with my breast milk until six months of age. After that age, I gradually introduced complementary foods but … [Read more...] about Conditions for Successful Exclusive Breastfeeding

By Berna Iskandar At some point along this path that I chose, as an educator about respectful parenting issues, I realized that to take good care of our children, rather than learn, we need to unlearn, to return to what instinct dictates, to resume practices that respond to the design of the sophisticated primates that we are, and to rescue intelligent customs because … [Read more...] about Cuddling is Not Spoiling

By Xiomara Alemán Just 15 minutes after she came into this world, Verónica heard her very first classical harp concert in the hospital. After this first encounter with music, the newborn and her family members were invited to participate in Programa Nuevos Integrantes, an innovative project to support the early development of Venezuelan children from low-income homes. … [Read more...] about Concert Musician in Diapers

By Vital Didonet Kindergartens and preschools have a distinguishing feature that differentiates them from primary schools: they’re places where children play. … [Read more...] about Educating Through Play