Category: Child Development
New Study Shows the Power of “Screen Together” Time
Used in moderation, family screen time can be beneficial Pexels, Andrea Piacquadio If you’ve ever groaned at the prospect of watching yet another episode of […]
How to Deal With Kids Making Dictatorial Demands
“You have to put all my blocks back exactly the way I had them! You are not allowed to touch my blocks!” “Stop talking to […]
The Exclusionary Family: Emotional Neglect at Its Worst
InsideCreativeHouse/Adobe Stock Images Brett sits alone at recess, wishing his old friend Paul would ask him to join in on the card game going on […]
Children Who Collect Are Not Uncommon
The reported incidence of children who collect varies from 30 and 40 percent to perhaps 80 percent. Part of this disparity is that the literature […]
Why Can’t We Remember Our Early Childhood?
Source: Oleksandr-p/Pexels Childhood amnesia (also known as infantile amnesia) is the inability to recall the first two to three years of our lives – an […]
Healing From Childhood: Finding Your True Self
Source: Katernya Hliznitsova/Unsplash A few weeks ago, I got a message from “Tom” that got me thinking: “Has anyone talked to you about discovering really […]
Dispelling Myths About Childhood Mental Health
November is Early Childhood Mental Health Awareness Month. More than 1 in 10 children have a mental health diagnosis, and 1 in 6 have a […]
Kindness Saved Me |
Today is World Kindness Day. As I was thinking about the power of kindness, something came to me that I’d never really thought of before: […]
The Key to Healthy Child Development
Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash One of the most important things we can offer a young person is attunement. “Parents who are insufficiently attuned produce children […]
Emerging Adults: Overindulgence Creates Adulting Challenges
Source: Courtesy of author It used to be pretty easy to know when you became an adult. The path was lined with cultural milestones that […]