I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.
I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.
I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.
Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.
I'm a pretty quiet person.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.
I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.
I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.
Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.
