Brain, Child is a parenting magazine for the rest of us: it's not filled with how-tos about baking the perfect cupcake or crafts to do on rainy days or moronic advice that's the same-old same-old. Instead, it is filled with essays by real parents with real lives - people with quirky and problematic children who don't always do everything right. I've been a subscriber since its beginning and it has never failed to make me think.

Here's the first part of their mission statement:

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I was flipping through Deborah Gray's excellent book, Attaching in Adoption the other day (I was actually wondering if Little J telling me I'm a stupid baby mommy in response to me telling him he couldn't have juice before dinner was a sign of an attachment problem...no, it isn't, and no I don't really think Little J has attachment issues I just have too many books lying around) and I found this fascinating passage about ADHD and malnutrition:

Children with Attention Deficit Disorder, or Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity... more