Summary Of The Incredible Infant

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Website Critique Incredible Infant is a blog created by mothers to offer helpful parenting tips from common concerning issues to fun craft ideas (Taylor, 2015). The Incredible Infant website reaches over six million viewers, with over six thousand subscribers who receive the sites posts delivered directly to their email, with a motto that every parent is the expert of their own child. The founder and CEO of the website Heather Taylor, is a mother of three children who started the website in order to connect and write to mothers. She finds joy in answering new mother’s questions, and has six paid staff members who are stay at home mothers to help her find what she feels are correct answers. Heather is happy to be able to provide part-time work to mothers who …show more content…
I expected to open a mommy blog and come to several negative conclusions about over-confident mother’s who feel that their opinion is considered proven research, but to my surprise this website was quite different than my expectations. The creator, Heather, clearly states in her website in all capital letters, that she is not a doctor, and that she cannot diagnose or prescribe. She also tells parents that if they are in doubt they should reach out to a doctor instead of her. As well as educating her readers about her short comings she still wanted to enhance her abilities as an informant blogger. In order to do that, Heather has become certified as a baby sleep coach by Kim West, a licensed clinical social worker, better known in the public eye as The Sleep Lady. Also, Incredible Infant like most

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