Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true ….

The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. ….

Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the….

Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acq….

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed b….

Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expendi….

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary ….

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice..

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood..

Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our….

What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, r….

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives….

Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young chi….

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning..

Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving t….

In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of c….

It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and….

Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mo….

Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more com….

Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult….

Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their p….