Evolutionary Parenting Podcast
The Evolutionary Parenting Podcast with Tracy Cassels, PhD focuses on topics and research relevant to parents today. Using developmental psychology, biology, anthropology, and evolution as a basis for all discussion, the podcast explores parenting issues like sleep (including sleep training, co-sleeping, and bedsharing), breastfeeding and feeding, discipline, and more. Tracy interviews both professionals who are in the parenting world and researchers whose research is relevant to today's parents. For parents who want to understand how our children have evolved to develop, how we as parents can help them thrive, and the role of science in all of this.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 66
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Ep. 45: Fathering Series Part 1: What Makes Good Fathers?
Let's be honest - when we talk about parenting, we're often talking about mothering. Most of the research on raising kids is based on mothers. Mothers in WEIRD cultures (and by weird, I mean the ac…
00:59:01 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Ep. 44: What have been the effects of COVID on Parents' Mental Well-Being?
We are almost two years into a global pandemic and many families have struggled to find a new normal. Some people seem to have found a new normal that exceeds life pre-pandemic, but many face ongoin…
01:05:40 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Ep. 43: How does our stress response develop in response to early childhood adversity?
Stress is a hot topic today with many people worrying about the degree of stress they face daily. We know stress in our adult lives is a problem, but I often hear people speak about stress as if it's…
01:25:01 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Ep. 42: How can families navigate and overcome a NICU experience?
One of the more terrifying events for any parent is seeing their child born and rushed off to the NICU. Though we might talk about how it's so much better compared to losing our children - and there…
01:24:45 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Ep. 41: How do marginalized parents experience parenting in Western cultures?
Too often we look at parenting practices and our judgment of them in absolute terms. I know I myself have been guilty of this. Sometimes it's warranted, but sometimes the judgments and the repercus…
01:12:27 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Ep. 40: Can co-sleeping help prevent SIDS? Part 2
Welcome back to Week 2 with Dr. James McKenna as we continue our conversation into SIDS, colic, breathing, and how our closeness to our babies can protect them. Please see below for the summary from…
00:56:39 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Ep. 39: Can co-sleeping help prevent SIDS? Part 1
I want to mention some things that parents of young babies have to think about. They often think about:
* Where their baby sleeps
* Why their baby cries (or cries so much)
* Worry about SIDS
* How …
00:56:06 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Ep. 38: What kind of parenting helps children develop emotion regulation?
We all want our kids to be able to regulate themselves, don't we? It feels like one of the main goals of parenting is how we are able to help get our kids to the stage where they can handle big emot…
01:22:17 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
Ep. 37: Can Babywearing Help with Mother-Infant Relationships?
Babywearing is still somewhat fringe in our society, despite being exactly how babies have been kept close to parents for most of human history. I mean, it's not like we had strollers back in the st…
01:24:42 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Ep. 36: What are the effects of birth trauma on the birthing parent and child?
When you think back to your birth, do you recall it fondly? The way they say you're supposed to feel about this momentous moment? Or do you try to block it out? Cry about it? Feel like it was an …
01:17:55 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
Ep. 35: How can we help (or be helped) with perinatal mental health struggles?
When we get pregnant and are expecting our first child, most people don't see this as a time to worry that their mental health is going to go downhill. We're supposed to be happy or even thrilled ab…
01:04:14 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Ep. 34: How can we balance our infant's biological sleep with a parent's need for sleep?
If you've listened here before you will know that the research doesn't support the idea that extinction sleep training methods, like crying it out or controlled crying, actually improve our infant's …
01:09:51 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
Ep. 33: How does Montessori differ from modern-traditional education?
When we think about education, most of us think about our experience with what we might call modern-traditional schooling: classes by grade, a teacher at the front, testing, memorization, getting to …
01:13:45 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Ep. 32: What is the Evolved Nest and how can it help us thrive?
"It's just the way it is!"
"Progress is always good"
These are the sentiments that many people feel about the way our society and culture is structured. Because it's how we've grown up and what we'v…
01:19:03 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Ep. 31: What are the myths we're told about nursing beyond infancy?
When you thought about nursing, did you think about how long it would go? Did you think, "I will absolutely be done by one because that's old enough"? Then find yourself with a 2-year-old attached …
01:16:57 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Ep. 30: How do we navigate our parenting decisions within our cultural framework?
From the moment a family is expecting their first child, decisions are made about how that relationship is going to work, decisions that don't always match reality. The addition of a new person to t…
01:28:51 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Ep. 29: What is the relationship between feeding and sleep in infancy?
"You must breastfeed!" says the medical professional.
"Don't you dare sleep with your baby!" says the same medical professional.
The tension between how we feed our babies and how we sleep with th…
01:06:23 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Ep. 28: Why should breastfeeding grief and trauma matter?
Although not every parent chooses to, many report wanting to breastfeed or chestfeed their child. Our Western society likes to promote this with slogans and ideas that "breast is best", but most of …
01:11:45 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Ep. 27: What about the forgotten tweens?
When we first become parents there are tons of books and advice for us to follow in the baby years and even the toddler years. As our kids age, however, it seems that all the parenting experts start…
01:11:30 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Ep. 26: Why is male infant circumcision a human rights issue? (Part 2)
Welcome back to part two of my talk with Brian Earp. If you haven't listened yet to last week's episode, I strongly suggest you do because some of what we talk about this week directly follows that …
00:57:57 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
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