Crying

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    Ten Steps for Taming a “Tantrum” With Love

    We’ve all witnessed it – our serene and blissful child transforming before our eyes over a seemingly small disappointment or discomfort. His freshly built, wooden bridge toppling over with little brother’s touch. Her sock being situated incorrectly within a shoe. The cookie denied. Suddenly our little one’s breath becomes shallow, tears spring to their eyes. [...]

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    Leaving Home: The Journey From Birth to Adulthood, Part 2

    Leaving Home, Part 2 Leaving Home is a video series accompanying the book of the same name by John Breeding, PhD.  See the other videos here: Part One: The Psychology Around Birth and Pregnancy Part Two: The Psychology of Babies and Bonding Part Three: Toddlerhood, Leaving the Mother’s Arms Part Four: The Psychology of Parenting [...]

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    The Dangers of “Crying It Out”

    (Read Dr. Narvaez’s follow-up post, Recovering from Crying It Out as an Adult.)   Letting babies “cry it out” is an idea that has been around since at least the 1880s when the field of medicine was in a hullaballoo about germs and transmitting infection and so took to the notion that babies should rarely [...]

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    The Monsters Under the Bed Are Real: Why Children Protest Be

    Forced Bedtimes: An Evolutionary Mismatch (Image from the Monsters Inc. movie by Pixar. This article first appeared in Peter Gray’s blog in Psychology Today and is reposted here with his permission.)   Infants and young children in our culture regularly protest going to bed.  They make all sorts of excuses. They say they are not tired, [...]

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    Moving away from detachment and sympathy, to parenting with

    A few days ago, I went to our local health food shop with my two children, Lana (8), and Sunny (3).  Before we left, they both had some feelings brewing.  Instead of staying and listening to them, I chose to go, since the shop was about to close and we had run out of our [...]