When I found out I was pregnant with our twins, I had great intentions of enrolling my new babies in the NYU Baby Sleep Study. But I hadn’t prepared before their birth and, parenting two newborns is exhausting (have I mentioned that?). Sleep simply wasn’t happening very often for my husband, myself or our babies […]
1st year of life
Cultivating Observational Skills in Kids
When I was a kid, we spent a lot of our weekends going “up north”, first to my grandparents lake cabin and later to our own cabin in the woods. Whenever he got a chance, my dad would take us out on the boat or into the woods for a drive. My dad’s always been […]
Citizen Science with Newborns
Even before the boys were born, I was already thinking about how much fun it would be to introduce them to citizen science. I kept seeing announcements and blogs about all these cool baby-related studies we could do with them (See: NYU Baby Sleep Study). “This is going to be great!” I thought enthusiastically to […]