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More On The Only Force Powerful Enough

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Michael

The Challenge and Responsibility We Call Parenting The miracle we are is a constantly changing interplay, a constellation or radiant galaxy of trillions of independent but interdependent cells relating, communicating and cooperating. No thing is ever the same, not for ...

Attention

Attention

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Michael

It must have been in the mid 1970’s, sitting at the counter of the local health food store a drop dead gorgeous young woman pulled up. I commented on how beautiful she is. This turned the conversation. ‘Life is all ...

Only power

The Only Power Strong Enough

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Michael

Carly Elizabeth is seven months young today, just this week beginning to pre-crawl. I wish I could be so attentive, persistent, focused, so sensitive and aware of everything instead of being preoccupied with all my stuff. Carly craves engagement and ...

Carly at 6mo

What I Learned With Carly Elizabeth at Six Months

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Michael

I can’t believe it! No, it can’t be true. Impossible! It must be a mistake. Indeed, Carly Elizabeth and I (and of course Z) are six months young today. What began as a tender ‘first, do no harm’ obsession deepened ...

Attunment

Attachment, Bonding or Attunment

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Michael

John Bowlby coined the term ‘attachment’ for a healthy mother-infant-father relationship and was plummeted by his peers for doing so. Marshal Klaus, MD., helped popularized the term ‘bonding’ to describe the precious cascade of discovery-contact-response encounters shared by newborn and ...

Lunch at 22 weeks

Lunch With Carly Elizabeth

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Michael

Carly and I (and of course Z, mother and wife) landed in a hip, crowded and loud bistro in Laguna Beach the day after Christmas along with my brother Mark. The waitress removed one of the chairs and slipped in ...