If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than y….

Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behav….

Child care is an invisible part of the economy..

There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a lo….

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking b….

The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six ….

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding c….

Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, ….

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes th….

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control ….

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents..