Several studies this past year have found that good parenting can have lasting positive effects on your children helping with everything from doing better in school to establishing healthy sleeping patterns.  When it comes to low to middle income families, the evidence is no different as a new study found that good parenting can make up for what income may lack. 
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All this recent discussion about parenting skills and bonding with your newborn may have left you wondering:  where do we get parental instincts?  Why is it that from the first moment we see our newborn we have the urge to nurture and protect them?  It was Darwin who first suggested that adults possess some undiscovered wiring that compels us to respond with care when an infant is present.  This, Darwin proposed, is how our species survived. 

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