Instinctive Parenting Excerpt on Babble.com

by Ada Calhoun Apr 07, 2010

Babble just put up an excerpt of Instinctive Parenting. Here's a snippet:

We all want to do the best by our children, but now no one is entirely sure what “the best” is. Go online and Google “circumcision” or “vaccination” or “sleep-training” and see if you can find a consensus, a middle ground.

What you do find is opposing, entrenched camps, their tents pitched and their flags flying. The people who swear letting your child “cry it out” will scar him for life. The people who insist that not circumcising will automatically lead to STDs in your future daughter-in-law. The people who identify absolutely every item in your household as a trigger for autism...

Read the rest here.