Child development

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    Robin Grille… in a Boat on the Thames River! A Video

    A stimulating interview with Robin Grille, leading psychohistorian and author of ‘Parenting for a Peaceful World’. Grille describes a fascinating vision of the development of childrearing and how paying attention to how we raise our children pays dividends of peace. Read more from Robin Grille on Kindred: Heart to Heart Parenting, an Excerpt from the [...]

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    Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Notre Dame Re

    “Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago,” says Darcia Narvaez, Notre Dame professor of psychology who specializes in moral development in children and how early life experiences can influence brain development. “Ill-advised practices and beliefs have become commonplace in our culture, such as the use of infant formula, [...]

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    Confessions of an AP Spanking Mom

    The Straight Dope on Spanking   “When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.”  ― Haim G. Ginott   Last night on our [...]

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    Eliminating Failure

    Shh! Don’t tell my daughter. By society’s standards, she’s a failure. She cannot stand on her own and each time we think she will, she falls. Falling over and over and over again. With a record like that, you’d think she’d have given up by now. Even if you told my daughter she had failed, she [...]

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    Openness: Your Evolutionary Heritage

    Maturation and resistance are the two primary forces at work in the developing psyche, and the two general states that support each are love and fear respectively. Now let’s look at some of the basic neuro-physiologic machinery through which these forces work. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is the most fundamental part of a complex [...]