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Is “Baby Brain” Real? The Neuroscience of Getting Your Pink Back (opens the original)
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Sometimes getting yourself back after a baby arrives in very small ways. You play an old song in the car and turn it up. You put on earrings for no particular reason, and something from the wardrobe that would never survive spit-up.Online, these are the moments women call getting your pink back 🦩. The comments under those videos are more anxious than the phrase suggests. When did it happen for you? Does everyone get there?And underneath those questions is another one: what happened to my mind?!<
Time-Out for Defiant Behavior: Does It Work—and Is It Harmful? (opens the original)
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If your child keeps hitting despite praise and consistent limits, you may have been told that time-out would damage your relationship. The evidence so far does not show that, at least for the brief, calm version researchers actually study. For some children, that version reduces the hitting.That qualifier matters.In 2014, Time gave parents a frightening idea. An article by psychiatrist Daniel Siegel and psychotherapist Tina Payne Bryson appeared under the headline “’Time-Outs’ Are Hurting Your C
What Professionals Do When a Child Becomes Defiant (opens the original)
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Behind a pane of one-way glass in a clinic playroom, a therapist is speaking softly into a microphone. On the other side of the glass, a mother sits on the floor with her four-year-old son and a tub of Duplo, a small receiver tucked into one ear. The family is a composite, but anyone who has worked in a child clinic will recognize them. The boy has been asked to leave two preschools. He bites. At home, a request to put on shoes can end with a thrown chair.The voice in the earpiece says: Tell him
An Attachment Researcher Speaks to Parents — Part 3 (opens the original)
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Pascal Vrtička is an attachment researcher at the University of Essex and one of the 47 co-authors of a 2026 practitioner review of attachment theory and research (Opie et al., 2026). Part One explains how this FAQ came about. Part Two covers attachment labels, diagnoses and neurodivergence.Some of the most persuasive parenting claims today come with a neurobiological explanation attached, usually about what a child
An Attachment Researcher Speaks to Parents – Part 2 (opens the original)
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Pascal Vrtička is an attachment researcher at the University of Essex and a co-author of the 2026 review of attachment misconceptions. Part One explains how this FAQ came about and covers attunement, Gentle Parenting, boundaries and daycare.Part Two is about labels. Terms built to describe patterns in attachm
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