Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go ….
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key ….
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….
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….
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous….
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….
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities ….
Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the ove….
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….
Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others….
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….
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….
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….
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….
Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a commun….
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 ….
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this vi….
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they bee….
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with paren….
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, ….
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….
