Sublime

Lipton stresses the importance of what he terms conscious parenting—parenting with the awareness that, from preconception all the way through postnatal development, a child’s development and health can be profoundly influenced by the parent’s thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors.

Similarly, New Zealand researcher Alec Roy found that humans with the short allele had higher rates of depression than those with the long version but that this was true only if they also had a childhood history of abuse or neglect. The conclusion is clear: Children who are fortunate enough to have an attuned and attentive parent are not going to d

His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.

peer recognition

(CALM) Initiative

Hans Asperger, after whom it was named, was a Nazi collaborator. He sentenced most people he identified as autistic to death or institutionalization, selecting only certain specific types of autistic people—those who presented with what would later be called Asperger’s—as worth saving, as “real” citizens, because

Sounds of safety The way our ears change when we don’t feel safe is really interesting when we think about children, and especially their speech development. The changes in the middle ear happen when we need to go into a defensive state, and - like the mummy bear I mentioned earlier - we check out our environment and use our senses to search for in