Child development

The Straight Dope on Spanking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpJR1rzkkyY “When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits…

Shh! Don’t tell my daughter. By society’s standards, she’s a failure. She cannot stand on her own and each…

Should you maybe get a dog instead of a baby? Caveat: You may not want to read this if you are mother feeling vulnerable. Although there is scientific and…

Are we raising a nation of stress-reactive individuals? Concealed weapons laws, self-defense shooting laws, vigilantism — what's behind the feeling of threat in…

Maturation and resistance are the two primary forces at work in the developing psyche, and the two general states that support each are love and fear…

Baby Table Manners (With Video) I am continually amazed by how capable babies are. Sometimes words, however descriptive (even mine!), can’t do them justice.…

Why do some babies grow up to be a Mother Theresa and others a Ted Bundy? What happens to each of us from the first moment of…

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…

It's Really Soul to Soul In my heart, I know that all children are vibrant just as they are if we allow them…

"Only by discovering and understanding the full creative power of imagination can we get behind the narrow, fixed images we have created about ourselves and for…