…but it turns out that carrying Clementine on his back is actuallly a status symbol for TucsonDaddy, according to this article on paternal caregiving in nonhuman primates and other animals.
This fascinates me, of course, as do most things written by Natalie Angier (and Sarah Hrdy). As biologically deterministic as it might be, I like [...]
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When, why, and how did you and your child wean?
With Linc, it was fairly straightforward–he stopped wanting to nurse around a year, and that was that. Which worked out okay, since I didn’t have to make any decisions (always a plus for me!) and I was thinking we’d have to wean at some point [...]
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A lovely musing on inadvertent cosleeping (for lack of a better phrase–what else to call it? when the kids end up in your bed?)
I was just thinking about this the other day–about how we don’t usually know that something is happening for the Last Time. And also about sleep, how it’s sort of completely crazy [...]
