I had a pretty traumatic emergency C-Section nearly three years ago when my daughter was born. Since then, I’ve had an immense amount of pent-up emotion and upset connected to that operation. Even after several years, I would constantly find myself still very much caught up in that incident. Not a day went by that [...]
There are virtually unlimited parallels between the ways that the technology of running groups can be applied to the family. I’ve written a few articles (like this and this) on the subject, as the brilliance with which L. Ron Hubbard’s administrative teachings can be used to unsnarl problems in the family never ceases to amaze. [...]
I wanted to share this story in honor of the March of Dimes Prematurity Awareness Month which begins tomorrow. Please share this with any mothers or mothers-to-be you may know. In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, I wanted to share my story. The March of Dimes began the Prematurity Awareness Campaign in 2003 to raise awareness [...]
Getting through “teething babies” is a basic rite of passage for any parent. Two simultaneous teething babies is the higher-skill-level version of that. In my household, we just got through two weeks of some of the most abyssmal sleep imaginable while my 2-year-old daughter worked on cutting her molars, and my 8-month-old son worked on [...]
One thing that gets overlooked all-too-often is the inextricable inter-relationship between one’s relative success (or lack of it) at work, and how it affects one’s ability to be a good parent and run a happy household. In what I’ve seen – all too often the upsets from the day at work massively affect the home: [...]
Antidepressants? JUST DON’T DO IT. It’s unfortunately now a well-documented fact that mothers that take antidepressants like Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft and Celexa run a massive risk (i.e. are 600% more likely) to bear a child with terrible congenital birth defects like persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), a serious and potentially fatal circulatory condition. [...]
My wife just got a checkup at the midwife, and that set the stage for this particular article, as it represented basically the most stress-free and happy pregnancy that you could ask for. As a pre-article anecdote, the midwife went to do her usual checkup of the baby’s heart rate with the Doppler, and while [...]
In Scientology, it is common for pregnant women to get what is usually called a Pregnancy Assist. As defined in the Scientology Handbook: “An assist, then, can be described as a Scientology process which is done to alleviate a present time discomfort. A process is an exact series of directions or sequence of actions taken [...]
I had to share some of the fun I’m currently having, doing the Having a Happy Baby course at the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, DC. My wife an I did a fairly good job across our first year with Mackenzie, and now with a baby boy on the way, we wanted to both [...]
Stress-Free Baby!, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Now that is a stress-free baby! Mackenzie was down with Kat on the mall, helping out at the Dianetics table set up down at the Cherry Blossom festival. She’s just about the most stress-free, problem-free baby that anyone’s ever seen, so of course Kat was getting asked if the [...]