Parenting experts do change their minds! It is not your imagination. Sometimes parenting experts change their advice. Sometimes on important parenting issues. Like childhood concussions. Heady stuff, right? In the past decade parenting experts have worried a lot about child brain injuries. Concussions to be precise. Why? Growing evidence of …
Are ADHD, autism, schizophrenia and other mental health disorders primarily neurological, best treated as brain diseases with drugs? Or psychological conditions that should be treated with therapy? Or both? Huge question, huge debate in mental health. The mind versus brain dilemma has been on my mind a lot lately. Well …
Science news amuses me more than the Daily Mail, the Daily Beast, Babble, Jezebel, CafeMom, Gawker and Huffington Post combined, even including HuffPo’s Love & Sex with its BDSM section (bondage, meh). Just as I was finishing typing out Love & Sex, I swear to you, the pop-up box on …
A glance at what the media left out in this week’s news about children and parents. Published remarks are highlighted in blue followed by the rejected portions. Social Media News “If you realize you are not the best communicator and you don’t have the best relationship with your child, adding another channel, …
Parents, pay attention. You could cause substantial developmental delays not to mention severe irreversible psychological and cognitive troubles for your child. In other words, brain damage. How? Well you’d have to abandon the child as an infant. Not just give the kid up to a doting adoptive family but really …