What is a Learning Disability?

Some History Of Learning Disabilities The first written account of a learning disability was in 1896. The case was that of a 14 yr old boy “bright and intelligent… quick at games and in no way inferior to others of his age [except for] his inability to learn to read” The phrase “learning disability” was […]

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The Nurture Assumption

review of a book by Judith Rich Harris In a very interesting book, Ms. Harris presents considerable psychological and anthropological data to reexamine the “Nurture Assumption,” or the belief that nurturing your children will lead to happy well-adjusted children, and that if your children grow up otherwise then logically you didn’t nurture them. Her explanations […]

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Corporal Punishment in Children – What Does It Accomplish?

How Many Parents Spank Their Children? Gershoff reports that Straus and Stewart (1999) found that 94% of American parents spank their children by the ages of 3 or 4. Primarily they spank children up to age 5, one to two times per month. Gershoff notes too that the US Department of Health and Human Services […]

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Economic Models of Parenting: Family Investments in Children’s Potential

Psychologist reviews Economic Models of Parenting: Family Investments in Children’s Potential

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Parent and Family Types

Review of seven parenting styles, and the research supporting them based on work by Baumrind, Maccoby, and Martin

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Dealing With Anger and Children

Tips on understanding children’s anger, and knowing what to do when you have an angry child

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ADHD – What you can do in addition to medication

Review of symptoms, causes, and myths of ADHD over the lifespan

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Telling Children About Divorce

Tips on how to tell children their parents are getting a divorce

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Step-Families: When Families Mend

Review of how step-families form, different types of step-families and which survive, and how your step-family can succeed

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Divorced Mothers

Review of the role and coping of mothers after divorce, and some advice from experts

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