The title of the article, all science-speak, is ‘Preliminary Investigation of Parent-Progeny Olfactory Recognition and Parental Investment’ in the March issue of Human Nature. As reported by Kevin Lewis in the Boston GLOBE Sunday (6-14-09), fathers who could correctly identify a T-shirt worn by their child paid more attention to their child and mothers who could do the same punished their child less. Mmm, the simple lesson, as I see it, is: hold on to your kids and give them lots of hugs. Oh, and remember to breathe. Our children and we will be closer and happier and we will all be better off.
