Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fat….
Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual proble….
The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between two people, each of whom contributes to t….
Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a commun….
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go ….
Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality.... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere.... The cost of poor….
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key ….
Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others….
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with paren….
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated t….
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not who gives the care b….
All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as….
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they bee….
Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the ove….
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities ….
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous….
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this vi….
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, ….
A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not ….
Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Do….
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and paren….
