Just some quick thoughts on some current events in case you missed it.
This week I’ve been reading Steve Pinker’s wonderful new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, which provides some compelling evidence about the drastic decline in violence throughout history. According to Pinker, we live in an extremely [...]
Continue Reading →Last week the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunizations recommended that boys as young as 9 years of age be vaccinated against the HPV virus, the most common sexually transmitted infection. HPV is also a leading cause of cervical cancer in women and throat cancer in men. Thus, according to the CDC [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →In a previous post on time-out, I mentioned the technique of forced choice. Reader feedback tells me that this topic is a good one to cover on its own. So without further ado, here you go.
Why Use Forced Choice
First, let’s talk first about why it is important to give children choices. [...]
Continue Reading →This morning I turned on the news and found this headline: “Pediatricians’ group finds fault with ‘SpongeBob‘” published by Reuters. In the article, the Reuters reporter states:
And Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics will take aim at the 12-year-old Nickelodeon show, reporting a study that concludes the fast-paced show, and others [...]
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