Brain Development

With all my chattering about how attentive Carly is, and she is, at the same time Carly is often eyes-wide-open-vacant, dreamy. Sitting at her buffet this…

Carly Elizabeth was no longer an infant, or even a toddler in my eyes, even though technically 'toddler,' meaning to walk unsteady, bridges all the way to age…

Traumatic experiences in childhood increase the risk of developing behavioral and psychiatric disorders later in life. It is also known that the consequences of…

The killing of MP Jo Cox has profoundly shocked the UK.  The country has been plunged into mourning, heightened by the dedicated way she lived her values of…

We are conflicted about diaper/nappy changing these days. As a society, it makes us uncomfortable. It is distasteful, involving dirty, smelly bodily substances.…

"Attachment is the process of learning to cope with loss – the loss of people, of pleasure, of a wish. Attachment is the process of learning how to recover from…

What Do Babies Have The Right To Expect? A few years ago, a 23-year-old released a video of her judge father beating her at age 16.  Such abuse violates the…

There’s no debate: The moral effects of videogames are evident. The Supreme Court is weighing arguments for and against a California law banning the sale…

"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has…