If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they d….

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works ….

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings..

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not fo….