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Dear teenagers, As we find ourselves in the middle of this pandemic — a new and disorienting experience for all of us — you, whose developmental stage…

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Now the question arises: Initiation into what? What is the specific nature and purpose of this initiation? The popular name for the pandemic offers a clue:…

Species-atypical child raising has become normal---to the detriment of the world In a newly published book, I wrote a chapter called…

Does a baby's first food really matter? Human milk has an inescapable connection to human evolution - filled with genetic components, bioactive factors, stem…

An Excerpt from the New Book by James McKenna, PhD About the book In Safe Infant Sleep, the world’s authority on cosleeping breaks down…

Soon, every maternal doctor and nurse in California will have to take implicit bias training. The new law is designed to improve awareness of the impact…

Children and communities thrive with partnership systems. The dark tales that humans tell about their past are untrue. According to anthropological and…

Is it time to expand psychological theories? The field of psychology has generally followed the western world’s frameworks for explaining life. Indigenous…

Welcome! I'm so glad you're here.   If you've found your way to this page, and you have, you most likely are a parent who has a lot of questions. Questions…