From the monthly archives: October 2011
There are many things that shape who we are as parents and Raudino and colleagues say that childhood behavior is one of them. In their study of parents that had been followed in a longitudinal study since birth, they found that conduct problems (behaviors like aggression and defiance of authority) mattered a whole lot in [...]
Continue Reading →Some brief thoughts on an issue I will be covering more intensively during the next few weeks. This week the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization recommended that boys between the ages 9 to 26 be vaccinated against the HPV virus. This created a storm of controversy among some parents and politicians who are concerned that [...]
Continue Reading →We know that there is a genetic component to ADHD. If Sally has ADHD, then she is more likely than her peers without ADHD to have a close relative with it, too. When it comes to mothers of children with ADHD, it is estimated that 17% have it themselves. And we also know that maternal [...]
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