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

- David Elkind

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

- David Elkind

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

- David Elkind

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. …

- David Elkind

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…

- David Elkind

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…

- David Elkind

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 …

- David Elkind

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…

- David Elkind

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

- David Elkind