There are few areas in parenting more fraught with anxiety than feeding children. But a new study suggests that if your child is a fussy eater, it may be largely genetic, rather than a result of your terrible parenting.
There is very little research into the transition to motherhood, and ideology often fills the vacuum. Leading child-rearing books are often filled with opinion held up as fact.
The amount of conflicting advice about parenting is perhaps larger than it's ever been. There is a heavy focus on the behaviour and choices of the individual parent, often the mother, with little consideration of the role of fathers or family.
Take the maternal brain. Before my kids were born, all I knew was that mum brain supposedly meant forgetfulness or a kind of neural sludge. But in early motherhood, my brain didn't feel slower, just different.
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