A Stressful Pregnancy Breeds Stressed-Out Kids
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This cover story from Time Magazine suggests that we parents have focused our energy in the wrong place. We’re all killing ourselves to provide our children with perfect, trauma-free childhoods. In fact, we can have more positive impact on a child’s life course by focusing on her first 9 months in the WOMB before she’s even born! Science is discovering that “fetal programming” shapes a child much more in utero than what we say and do to her after she’s left the womb:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021111-386944,00.html
Kids pick up on everything, and research shows that children can "catch" their parents' stress just like they catch a virus—soaking up the stress that pervades a household until their developing nervous systems reach "overload." Then kids act-out, or get sick.
