Parent Private Investigator

Ponton: You never cease to surprise me, sir. Inspector Jacques Clouseau: It’s true. My surprises, they are rarely unexpected. –          The Pink Panther, 2006[i] Do you sometimes feel like you have to be a detective when your child melts down? You know that what she seems to be crying about shouldn’t elicit that level of …

Catching Emotions

“…it’s just emotion that’s taken me over…” –          Emotion, Bee Gees The baby books are keen on discussing “emotional contagion,” noting that babies, even in utero, can feel your emotions and tend to adopt those same emotions (just to add to our Mommy guilt!). And certainly you’ve experienced the contagion in your family life. One person …