Parenting Book Club: Our Babies, Ourselves

Join us for a discussion about one of our favourite parenting books - Meredith's Small's Our Babies, Ourselves.

"In this ground-breaking book, anthropologist Meredith Small reveals her remarkable findings in the new science of ethnopediatrics. Professor Small joins pediatricians, child-development researchers, and anthropologists across the country who are studying to what extent the way we parent our infants is based on biological needs and to what extent it is based on culture - and how sometimes what is culturally dictated may not be what's best for babies. Should an infant be encouraged to sleep alone? Is breast-feeding better than bottle-feeding, or is that just a myth of the nineties? How much time should pass before a mother picks up her crying infant? And how important is it really to a baby's development to talk and sing to him or her? These are but a few of the important questions Small addresses, and the answers not only are suprising but may even change the way we raise children."

Parenting Book Club events are FREE and last an hour and a half. Babies are welcome. If you choose to purchase the book please consider supporting Red Tent Sisters with your purchase rather than your local big box bookstore. Thank you for your support.