Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.
I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
I don't care much about conforming.
I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.
Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
I don't look like most women in the industry.
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.
I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.
I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.
As a kid, I felt really weird.
I'm a pretty quiet person.
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
I'm generally intimidated by adults.
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
