Child development

As extended families shrink, communities dwindle and the need to work increases, the need for childcare grows. But at what cost?…

You walk into your local supermarket. You look down the lolly aisle to see a tiny toddler on the floor, kicking and screaming. Is he…

The whole goal seems to be to make marketing almost invisible, a 360 degree wall around a kid, such that where reality starts and marketing begins...…

A Call from Wildest Colts Resources: To All Caring Adults Fall, 2004Today we ask all citizens to call forward a very special awareness. Every one of…

(Photo above by Tanya Little) Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation of it, had I cause to…

It is our view that infants are genetically biased towards interaction with other people from the beginning. A child is pre-adapted to a…

Today, one finds no support for spanking in the scientific literature. This opinion, shared by mental health and child development experts, and other…

Hang out at a playground, visit a school, or show up at a child's birthday party, and there's one phrase you can count on hearing…

"The kids at school were amazed to hear I share a bed with my brother and sister. I never told them about the times we'd squeezed five in that bed.…

Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and difficult from…