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So Frustrating! Why Do Couples Fight More After the Baby Arrives? 3 Causes and a 6-Step Guide

So Frustrating! Why Do Couples Fight More After the Baby Arrives? 3 Causes and a 6-Step Guide

Couples fight more after a baby arrives for three reasons: a lack of consideration, clashing priorities, and different ways of doing housework and childcare. With real examples, this article explains how to reduce fights and a 6-step way to handle them when they happen.


Do Children With ASD Grow by Being "Selfish"? Parenting Lessons From Sheep That Flip Over

Do Children With ASD Grow by Being "Selfish"? Parenting Lessons From Sheep That Flip Over

For children with ASD (autism spectrum disorder), are free schools and liberalism really the right answer? What parents can do before a child, having confused "freedom" with "neglect," ends up stuck in a "cast sheep" state. A parenting approach that gently guides a child with strong fixations toward independence, as if giving them a soft massage.


[The Dark Side of Baby Food] We Believed "Let Them Play With Their Food" for a Year, and It Ended Badly. Don't Be Fooled by Twisted "Free Education"!

[The Dark Side of Baby Food] We Believed "Let Them Play With Their Food" for a Year, and It Ended Badly. Don't Be Fooled by Twisted "Free Education"!

"Babies playing with food is good for their development, so let them play freely ♡"

You've probably heard this at least once, from a visiting public health nurse, a parenting book, or an online article.


In our family too, just after our child started baby food, the public health nurse who visited told us exactly the same thing.


My wife believed it, and decided to watch warmly even when our child squished food into a mess or played with it forever without eating. (^^)


But as...


Endlessly Dawdling on Games and YouTube... "Is It Actually Addiction?!"

Endlessly Dawdling on Games and YouTube... "Is It Actually Addiction?!"

"They'll get bored eventually" no longer holds true! What is the black-hole-level pull of today's digital world, from Roblox to short videos? A disrupted daily rhythm may be caused not by your child's personality but by "brain hacking"... An empathetic column that puts worried parents' honest feelings into words.


"My Husband Won't Do Housework": A CBT Approach and How to Talk About It

"My Husband Won't Do Housework": A CBT Approach and How to Talk About It

Relieve a wife's stress over unequal housework with CBT. Correct the husband's schema that "housework is a woman's job" and follow a shared action plan the two of you can put into practice. How to turn irritation into appreciation.