Help Your Child Ace This School Year

It’s time to take notes: Help your child succeed this school year with these helpful back-to-school tips. It’s hard to believe, but summer has come to an end and school is already back in [...]

Making a Splash with Water Safety

School is out but safe water practices are always in! Make your summer more secure by making water safety a priority. Summer is here and with temps rising, more people are hitting the pool or [...]

Infant Attachment Styles

Written by Mel Gutierrez, BSN, RN In the 1970s, Mary Ainsworth expanded on infant attachment and identified infant attachment styles. She realized the ways that parents respond to their [...]

Attachment Parenting

Parenting Approaches Series 4 of 4 Written by Mel Gutierrez, BSN, RN Attachment parenting is often confused with attachment theory, but it’s a related but separate idea. Pediatrician [...]

Free Range Parenting

Parenting Approaches Series 3 of 4 Written by Mel Gutierrez, BSN, RN In 2008 writer Lenore Skenazy was accused of being “America’s worst mom.” She wrote about letting her 9-year-old son, who [...]

Helicopter Parenting

Parenting Approaches Series 2 of 4 Written by Mel Gutierrez, BSN, RN When a parent always hovers at their child’s side to help them succeed, children’s success can slip out of reach. [...]

The Four Parenting Styles

Written by Mel Gutierrez, BSN, RN Overview Style doesn’t end at fashion- it applies to raising children! Like fashion trends, parenting styles change over the years and seasons. Just like [...]

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