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What to do personally to support ecosystems and species.

I was very touched to receive a message from Tracey Curtis, English singer-songwriter and mother-of-five who wrote a song called: ‘Raising Girls and Boys’…

Babies need recognition, resonance, and respect--so do we all.

"The people who have the opportunity to alter the field, and to create an open world for the future, are the parents. Those are the most powerful beings on…

We hear a lot about the type of parenting that helps children reach positive outcomes—authoritative parenting. To put it simply, it is warm but firm (setting…

Each year Infant Mental Health Awareness Week reminds us that babies need particular care to promote good mental health. In fact, babies need 24/7 care of a…

Children born to women who had gestational diabetes and drank at least one artificially sweetened beverage per day during pregnancy were more likely to be…

Playful Wisdom Asks: What About Fathers? The neuroscience is conclusive: child development is model dependent. Ideally then, the focus of early childhood…

Trauma can change the brain . . . . . . but the person who experienced the trauma may not be the only one whose brain changes. In the video above,…

Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection, researchers have found that male moths with…