Child Development
56 Articles & Excerpts
Your Baby's Amazing Brain
 Baby Minds: Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
Remember that feeling of excitement and exhilaration the day your baby was born? You examined her tiny face and gazed with amazement into her unaccustomed eyes wondering what she must be feeling in her first experience of the outside world.
Nature or Nurture? It's All in the Brain
 What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
by Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Wouldn't you know it? Just as I get this beautiful, healthy neuron filled with dye and ready to image, Julia wakes up and starts crying. The experiment takes a long time to set up; I've been at it most of the day and need just ten more uninterrupted
Some Dos and Don'ts with Boys
 Real Boys Workbook
by William S. Pollack, Ph.D., Kathleen Cushman, Ed.D.
Boys are different from girls-partly because their biology is different, but more often because we unwittingly treat them differently from their earliest infancy in what we have described as the Boy Code. (See pages xxi-xxii.)
Birth to Three Months
 BabyTalk : Strengthen Your Child's Ability to Listen, Understand, and Communicate
by Sally Ward Ph.D.
The newborn baby arrives totally helpless and dependent, but nonetheless amazingly well equipped in a number of ways to interact with the adults around him. He shows an emotional inclination toward people from the very start of life and soon engages them
The Twenty-four-Karat Golden Rule
 Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child
by Maurice J. Elias Ph.D., Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D., Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.
Do you know the Golden Rule? Most people do. Usually, it is quoted, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." We call this "the Fourteen-Karat Golden Rule." Why? Because there is a better one, one that reflects what we
Parenting by Choice and Not by Chance
 Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults
by Maurice J. Elias Ph.D., Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D., Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.
Is your life hectic? Did you plan for it to be this way? Did you sit down two years ago and say, Wow, my life is so relaxed, I have so much time that over the next two years, I want to greatly increase how many things my kids-and we-are doing?
Getting a View from the Ferris Wheel
 The Rollercoaster Years
by Charlene C. Giannetti, Margaret Sagarese
Parenting a child from ages ten through fifteen is truly challenging. Like the view from a Ferris Wheel, the highs are exhilarating; but looking down can be flip-flop stomach scary. It is the best of times and the worst of times.
An Invitation to a Birthday Party
 Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Catherine O'Neill Grace, Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
All parents experience pain about their children's social lives. There is no escaping it. A mother agonizes over her child's social dilemmas. A father immediately assesses whether his son or daughter is well received by a group of children.
The Phenomenon of Peer Orientation
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., Gabor Maté, M.D.
Something has changed. We can sense it, can feel it, just not find the words for it. Children are not quite the same as we remember being. They seem less likely to take their cues from adults, less inclined to please those in charge, less afraid
Happier, Smarter Babies
 Baby Prodigy: A Guide to Raising a Smarter, Happier Baby
by Barbara Candiano-Marcus
As I began to research childhood brain development in order to develop the Baby Prodigy DVDs, CDs, and videos, I had to educate myself on how the brain worked. This chapter is by no means an effort to provide you with a full education in neuroanatomy
Opening the Black Box
 Your Child's Growing Mind : Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
One evening some years ago, I received a call from a young teacher whom I hadn't seen since she had left school on maternity leave. We had often talked about her hopes and plans for the baby, but tonight she sounded worried.
Body Image Blues
 Real Kids Come in All Sizes : Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Body Esteem
by Kathy Kater
Too many American children, particularly girls, are afraid to gain weight. The compelling wish to be thin or stay thin at all costs provides the seeds for a lifetime of intense, unrelenting, counterproductive conflict between hunger and eating, or between
Basic Infant Care
 Your Baby's First Year (Second Edition)
by Steven P. Shelov, M.D., The American Academy of Pediatrics
When your baby first arrives, you may feel a bit overwhelmed by the job of caring for her. Even such routine tasks as diapering and dressing her can fill you with anxiety-especially if you've never spent much time around babies before.
Gender Differences
 Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Matthew turned five years old the summer before kindergarten started. He was looking forward to it. From what he had heard, kindergarten sounded like just one long play date with friends. He could hardly wait.
Finding Happiness in Your Child
 Ready to Learn : How to Help Your Preschooler Succeed
by Stan Goldberg, Ph.D.
What do you think about when someone says happiness? Usually, what comes tomind are things, or outcomes. Happiness can be a four-car garage in the suburbs, a high-paying job, an expensive new car, or a child who becomes a successful professional.
The natural history of your child's sexuality
 Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask)
by Justin Richardson, M.D., Mark A. Schuster, M.D., PH.D.
You are flat on your back. Your shirt is pulled up over your belly, and your pants are down around your hips. Someone has just squirted a glob of cold jelly below your navel. This is one of those miraculous moments in life that doesn't always live up to
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I know its the responsible thing to do, I am NOT in a place, financially right now to have a baby. It is the LAST thing I need actually. I just wish wanting one would go away lol. I hate having to suffer with the feeling for YEARS before I can actually financially and physically take care of one when I yearn for one so bad right now! | What can I do to help my deaf son?
My son is 28 years old. He has two degrees. He has an associate degree in photography that he got when he was 21 years old. Despite of winning photograph contest very often, have been asked to work with some big name photographers, and other things. But when he want to get paid, they will drop him like a hot potato. | Parents not talking to us anymore
Hi all - I'll apologise in advance cos this is likely to be a long post, cos it's a long story (as I'm sure all parental issues are) - but I'll try to keep it as condensed as possible.
Myself and my 3 brothers generally have a good relationship with my parents, but there has been some tension underlying that relationship for some time (a few years) on our part. | Problems with my Father
Growing up my father was a domineering authority figure, not in a good way though. He basically is a loner that got stuck with a wife and kids, he never talks, unless barking some orders or something I've done is messed up. So the only words i ever really hear from him are criticism, which he delivers in a very yelling condesending manor. |
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