My Fertile Brain
Manuela Kouakou, MD-PhD, Dr. Bob’s IT DEPENDSNeuroscientist, MD, and mother translating brain science into grounded, compassionate insights for parents
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The Internet Argues With Ghosts
Last night I was holding a firm boundary about socks and abandoning it ninety seconds later, and somewhere in the middle of that I was also narrating both moves to myself in captions I’d never post. The firm one would have made a good “hold...
Picky Eating Is Not Your Fault. Now What?
What helps, what backfires, and why progress sometimes comes in crumbs
In my last essay on picky eating, I argued that the mother whose child eats salmon is not necessarily a better mother. She may simply be parenting a different child.
Does Your Stress Damage Your Child's Brain?
The science behind one of parenting's most frightening claims — and what actually helps.
It’s late, the monitor has finally gone quiet, and somewhere in the scroll a calm and certain voice explains that the tension in your body is being ab...
Mothers I’m Reading — July 2026
On the lives that don’t follow the script
Motherhood comes with a lot of ideas about how things are supposed to look.
How Neuroscience Made Ordinary Parenting Feel Dangerous
The phrases reach parents early, sometimes before the baby arrives. You are wiring their brain. The first years are everything. Stress changes the brain. Don’t miss the window. They turn up in pediatric handouts, baby-class brochures, popul...
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Brain science translated into grounded, compassionate insights for parents. MD \ud83e\ude7a • MSc in Neuroscience \ud83e\udde0 • PhD in Psychiatric Genetics \ud83e\uddec
Pediatrician, Behavioral Pediatrician Clin Professor University Oklahoma Pediatrics Author: The Normal but Not So Easy Child Raising Your Child without Frustration, Anger or Guilt
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