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. 25: Why is male infant circumcision a human rights issue? (Part 1)
In North America - the United States in particular - males are regularly circumcised at birth. Over the years, various arguments have been made leading up to a shift in the American Academy of Pedia…
00:55:15 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Bonus Episode: Covid-19 Infection, Vaccination, and Breast Milk
This is a special episode of the podcast because it's focused on something highly relevant to us today. At this moment, we're faced with a global pandemic that we are trying to overcome. Over the p…
00:45:20 |
Sun 23 May 2021
Ep. 24: What is the role of intergenerational early life experience on life outcomes?
A common view today is that when we are born, we are somehow born on even footing when it comes to the effects of how we are raised and what this means for us developmentally. We believe this despit…
01:21:34 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Ep. 23: What is the association of parenting styles with emotion regulation in infancy?
We're all told that we need to be good parents, but what does this mean? Is it universal for all people of all walks of life? In this episode, I talk with my ongoing guest Dr. Levita D'Souza about …
01:11:08 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Ep. 22: What does an evolutionary framework that centres on mothers and babies look like?
When we explore our human evolutionary histories as they've been told so far, the central theme is often on the male experience. The hunter. The conqueror. How did male fertility traits impact rel…
01:12:06 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Ep. 21: What is the reality of and barriers to cooperative lactation today?
Despite a lot of talk about breastfeeding in our culture, very little discussion happens about the various ways that lactation and provision of breast milk is shared amongst nursing parents. We ofte…
01:08:19 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Ep. 20: What does breastfeeding advocacy look like in the era of fed is best?
This week we delve into the world of breastfeeding advocacy with none other than the Badass Breastfeeder herself, Abby Theuring. It feels like no matter where you turn today, breastfeeding has becom…
01:18:37 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Ep. 19: Do dyslexics experience emotions differently?
Most people conceptualize dyslexia as an intellectual disorder, but that simply isn't the case. Although dyslexia is a struggle with reading, reading isn't all there is to our intelligence, just one…
01:02:52 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Ep. 18: How early is too early for empathy in infancy?
For years we have assumed that babies were incapable of complex empathy. We thought they could react to others' distress through emotion contagion but that was it. It turns out, we were wrong. Thi…
01:21:57 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Ep. 17: What is an "infant sleep problem"?
Most parents are led to believe that something is wrong with their babies (or toddlers) because they are waking at night, requiring assistance from parents to settle, or taking a while to fall asleep…
01:22:16 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Ep. 16: How can we help reduce the risk of asthma, eczema, and allergies in our kids?
Did you know that half of all babies born today will develop allergies? Up to a third will become asthmatic or suffer from eczema? Chronic disease is something most families are facing with their c…
01:23:29 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Ep. 15: How does sleep-disordered breathing affect your child?
Does your child snore? Breathe through their mouth? Seem to stop breathing for parts of the night? These are all examples of sleep-disordered breathing, something that can have a large impact on o…
01:13:45 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Ep. 14: How can we hold space for pregnancy loss?
Approximately 1 in 3 pregnancies will end in pregnancy loss and the risks are higher for women of colour. This is devastating for those who experience it and yet our culture and many of the people t…
01:11:11 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Ep. 13: How did cry-it-out become authoritative in our culture?
It seems like you can't talk to anyone about your baby and their sleep without being told that you have to cry it out or use a modified version, like controlled crying. In our culture, it's the go-t…
01:03:44 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Ep. 12: What can we learn about parenting from dead babies from the past?
We can only understand our present when we understand our past, right? But how can we do that when the evidence of that past is gone? When the stories aren't passed down or recorded? This week we …
01:16:10 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Ep. 11: How does child anxiety affect sleep training?
How does child anxiety affect sleep training? It's a question I've thought a lot about and always been frustrated that no one has ever thought to consider these children. This week I got to talk to…
01:22:01 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Ep. 10: Does artificial sweetener use in pregnancy affect babies?
Do you use artificial sweeteners? Did you use them while you were pregnant? In our quest to curb sugar, we've moved towards a high use of these sweeteners without necessarily thinking about the eff…
00:59:55 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Ep. 9: Does sleep training affect attachment?
Why does research not find a relationship between sleep training and attachment? Isn't the idea that we need to be responsive regularly to foster secure attachment? And isn't sleep training the opp…
01:09:19 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Ep. 8: What happens to the brain during pregnancy and beyond?
What happens to the brain during pregnancy and beyond? How does our parenting impact our children's neurological development for life? This week, I speak to Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum, the world's first…
01:05:47 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Ep. 7: What is education outside the modern school system?
In this episode, Tracy Gillett (of Raised Good) and I discuss the issue of alternative schooling. Specifically, what does education look like when you aren't using modern schools? What kinds of str…
01:09:47 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
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