Your child's height

Genetic factors are important to physical growth. Tall parents tend to have tall children and short parents tend to have short children.

Height has always seemed a trivial characteristic by which to judge any person. Unfortunately, our culture has traditionally placed values on various heights. Being tall has been as an asset for boys but a problem for girls.

Some parents are concerned that their children will be handicapped for being too tall or too short, and seek out ways to change growth patterns. Many tall women might remember being teased because of their height when they were younger.

Tell us what you think, or if you have some suggestions

Alvaro Castillo has been researching on healthy parenting for many years. Check his website for more information in http://www.myhomeparent.com/

Feeding ability of your baby

Most children have a vigorous sucking ability at birth, although many do not perfect this skill until they are 4 weeks old. At 4 months, the infant will begin to show signs of waiting for food.

The infant will develop more tongue control, sticking out his or her tongue for the spoon. Between 5 and 6 months, the infants develop lip control and can bring their lips to a cup.

The hands also are developing at this age, and the child will be able to grab a bottle with both hands.

Between 6 and 9 months of age, the child will learn to remove food from the spoon and might be able to drink from a cup.

The child also will learn things like a cracker without any assistance. Between 9 and 12 months of age the infant will achieve better finger control and be able to grab small pieces of food

Has your baby experience been like this? Share your experience, or if you have any suggestion, comment or question

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Avoid the nursery wars

Never in the history of bringing up babies has so much advice been so easily accessible by so many.

Every bookshop has a parenting section and pretty well every book has a website. If you Google a problem, you will find contradictory solutions galore.

An internet journalist said that the experts didn’t realize how daunting they were to mere mortals and that most parents find it easier to take tips from their friends than from books and a bossy nanny state.

At a Cambridge University seminar attended by Daisy Goodwin, producer of the recent, controversial reality TV parenting series Bringing Up Baby, many mothers said they felt hypnotised and disempowered by both the abundance and the contradictions of all the advice, especially when claims are made (wrongly in the case of Goodwin’s programme) that certain practices can permanently damage, even threaten, the lives of babies.

My advice to any parent is to survey the parenting shelves, the TV programmes and the internet sites with the same subjectivity that you use when you select a magazine or a cookery book.

What do you think? Do you feel the same way? Feel free to share your thougths on this

Alvaro Castillo has been researching on healthy parenting for many years. Check his website for more information in www.myhomeparent.com or check out articles at