This guest post by Barbara Boucher, PhD, a child development specialist is in response to my previous post What Makes a Good Parent?, a post I give her both credit and blame (teasing, Barbara!) for due to questions she posed in comments on another post here. Good parenting, specifically the …
A parenting book that actually might positively impact your child’s life? Although this space is generally reserved for the books, articles, official recommendations, etc. that might screw up your life and your kid here’s one potentially bright and shiny opportunity for optimism (at least if you take her advice) thanks to one busy and one hope’s wise clinical psychologist attending to …
Thanks, Prof Hamlin, University of British Columbia. Babies prefer kind people? According to researcher Kiley Hamlin at the University of British Columbia babies pretty much dig people who help others. They also want those who misbehave to get their just desserts. Wow, sounds pretty incredible… Hamlin reports “by eight months, babies have developed nuanced views of reciprocity and …