Quotes from Christine Gross-Loh

in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved to reuse many times, not recycled after one purchase.

corporations have benefited from deregulation against marketing directly to children, which began in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan.

Immigrant families aren't, he notes, "a threat to America's moral culture." Rather, "America is a threat to immigrant children's moral development.

A study of nearly four thousand children4 in the UK (where kids are susceptible to similar food temptations as our own) found that eating a fat, sugar, or processed-food diet at age three was directly linked to lower IQ at age eight.

The Simple Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me About Why Children Need Real Food,

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

Today, the average American child3 is spending only between four and seven minutes in unstructured outdoor play.

EC is about communication, about gently getting in harmony with your baby, and proceeding at a pace that feels right for all of you. It's about engaging in a give-and-take on a daily basis and honing those instincts (the same instincts that allow you to sense when your baby is hungry, tired, or overstimulated) that make parenting your own unique baby so rewarding. There's nothing coercive, forced, or pressured about EC.

When people talk only about what they're protecting their kids from, they're not thinking about what they're depriving them of.

the United States consumes 80 percent of the world's supply of Ritalin

non-intervention was a deliberate strategy based on the notion that children shouldn't learn how to obey just because adults told them to. Teachers wanted kids to learn self-control for themselves. Even if this took time. "BELIEVE

Highly scheduled lives and early academics aren't what our children's brains evolved to need.