Sublime

baby’s sleep schedule is appropriate so that she can fall asleep.

what you see on the surface is a child’s behavior and that what you don’t see is the child’s legitimate need for our shared support and regulation of those needs.

Of all the systems essential to the functioning of humanity, parenting may well be the most compromised by hyper-novelty of the 21st century.

I recently spoke with an anthropologist named Barry Hewlett who studies child-rearing in hunter-gatherer societies in Central Africa. He explained to me that children in those societies spend lots of time with their parents — they tag along throughout the day and often help with tasks like foraging — but they are rarely the main object of their par

Skinner noted that parental attention is a powerful reinforcer, and that parents can, by being slow to respond to polite requests, unwittingly train their children to be annoying and pushy.

Is the screaming infant making you get up at night, or did you choose to give birth?

Through training the brain to seek its own stability, we can ease these terrible sequelae to early childhood neglect and abuse, regardless of the diagnosis given.