Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) h….

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they t….

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognitio….

[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-contro….

Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multi….

Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depre….

Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores.….

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earl….

If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we ….

In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal f….

We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part ….