Ep. 155: The Bottom Line for Baby with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

<p><a href= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/ep-155-the-bottom-line-for-baby-with-tina-payne-bryson-ph-d"> SHOW NOTES</a></p> <p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8441" src= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Intro-About-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" />This week's conversation is with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., the trusted, down-to-earth parenting expert many of us have grown to trust over the years due to her pragmatic, research-based approach and advice.</p> <p>Tina has researched and written the reference book every new parent needs to combat the anxiety from competing advice from family and friends. In <em>The Bottom Line for Baby</em>, Tina boils down the actual scientific research in short, 2-4 page spreads. She covers many topics including vaccines, co-sleeping, germs, and circumcision. Sometimes the science is clear and sometimes it isn't, but this book arms you with the data you need to know whether your gut instinct about your own child is the direction you should go. She also arms you with the science to defend allowing your child to play in the dirt when you have well-meaning relatives who think you're letting your kid get too dirty.</p> <p><em>The Bottom Line for Baby</em> is the book every new parent needs during this era of information overload for parents. It'll be my go-to new baby gift for many years to come.</p> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8539" src= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/banner-cara-natterson-quote.jpg" alt="" width="970" height="300" /></p> <h2><span style="color: #1176bc">Big Ideas</span></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">An exhausted parent can flip to that subject and within just a few minutes, have the latest science on that topic and then be given a bottom line about what to do.<br /></span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">I'll just give you a sneak preview, it's really good for kids to be exposed to germs.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">So we should ju