A new pilot study suggests intervention as early as 6 months could reduce or eliminate autism symptoms in children at high risk. Published on Tuesday in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, media quickly jumped all over the very small study despite its highly speculative findings: Pilot Intervention Eliminates …
Talk may be cheap but it just got a lot richer. Providence Talks, a program designed by the city of Providence, R.I. to teach low-income parents to talk to their kids more just won five million dollars from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization. The idea talking to babies enriches their brain development has been brewing in child development circles …
Desks, letter books and math worksheets in preschool. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure out preschool is no longer about learning to sit on the circle rug without touching the kid on the next color. Today’s early childhood education only vaguely resembles my own brief stint at Lolliopop Nursery …
Infant formula, letting babies cry it out and get this, letting kids play alone in their bedrooms pose significant dangers to children’s cognitive, emotional and social development. Just when I thought it was safe to indulge in some of the feel-good karma of the new year comes this parenting dreck in the form of a science news update from of all places …
While I’m on a positive roll here, check out Smarter Ways to Discipline Children, a recent article over at the Wall Street Journal about the power of so-called positive discipline. Positive Discipline? A misnomer of sorts. It isn’t so much about discipline in the sense of on-the-spot punishment or stopping bad behavior as it happens but …