Parenting is fraught with social and emotional challenges in the best of times. Add a year of forced togetherness and lack of regular school and work routines due to the pandemic, and it can feel downright depressing if your kids are out of control.
Enter the new book by NPR science desk correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff, in which she gathers the parenting wisdom of ancient cultures to help her raise her young daughter, Rosy.
Doucleff, a chemist-turned-journalist, was disappointed by the parenting books she’d read, and set out to find better ways of handling her spirited daughter. She details her journey through the Yucatan, the Arctic, and Tanzania in Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans.
One thing she learned in the Arctic about dealing with kids' temper tantrums is to treat kids calmly, not as a person trying to push your buttons but as an unformed human who has not yet learned how to behave.
A big thing missing from this pandemic year for many of us is the touch of another person -- the kiss of a lover, the hug of a friend, or even a casual pat on the arm from an acquaintance.
Our friends at NPR's LifeKit report that self-touch is actually quite healing -- it reduces stress, calms nerves, and releases oxytocin -- and it doesn’t necessarily have to be sexual.
To get started by yourself, experts say to slow down and get curious about what feels good to you -- Maybe it's a long walk, maybe it's a bubble bath.
Frustrated trying to find out where and when you can get your shot? No wonder. It’s different in nearly every state and county, as we reported last week when we released our guide to getting started.
Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a web tool that promises to show potential patients where the providers are and how to make an appointment. It also shows how much vaccine is available.
While other private services have sprung up to try to help connect patients with shots, the government’s site, called VaccineFinder, doesn’t rely on manual input from volunteers - it requires health providers to report inventories every 24 hours. (Also, psst - VaccineFinder isn’t new -- it’s an expansion of a program that’s been available to help find flu shots and other vaccines for years.)
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