Being a Good Mom Can Make Your Kids Healthier Adults
Submitted by Anna Fader on
Apparently hugging and kissing your children is important for more than just making them feel better after getting boo boos. New science is showing that being a nurturing parent could keep them from getting serious illnesses as adults.
A most incredible NOVA episode on PBS called Ghost in Your Genes gave a huge insight into how the environmental effects of our lives, including our prenatal experience and how nurturing our mother was, can actually affect our health and even the health of our grandchildren.
I can't describe half the things that it talked about because it was so dense and informative, but here are a couple of summary thoughts: