Smart Phone-Impaired Parenting

• Parents' Screen Time is Hurting Children
Child development is relational, a conversational duet between parent and child. Smart phone-impaired parenting interrupts the emotional cueing system, whose hallmark is responsive communication, the basis of most human learning.

Inattentional Blindness through Tech

• Head Down Interactions
More and more is we’re not talking to our children––we put them in front of the tech when they’re young and parents are absorbed in their own tech.

Put Away the Screen

• Ban Electronics in the Classroom

The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them.

Parent-Child Mental Health

• Engaging Families From the Start
A toddler's troubling behaviors can be understood as difficulties managing both his/her body and developing mind in a social context––consisting initially of parent-child. Helping these families means intensive support from the very beginning.

Infant Brain Development

• Meeting a Young Child's Basic Needs
There is an intersection of brain and body, self-awareness and self-regulation, anxiety and comfort–– the child-parent relationship underpins the development of all these systems. Relationships matter.When there is a mismatch, the impact is long-term.

Mobile Social Media

• Intimacy & Empathy in the New Age of Media
The communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships—with family and friends, as well as colleagues and romantic partners.

Screen Time

• Your Child's Brain on Screen
Too much screen time too soon impedes the development of the ability to focus, to concentrate, to lend attention, to sense other people’s attitudes and communicate with them, to build a large vocabulary—all those abilities are harmed.

Supporting Parent-Child Relationships

• Autism and Stress
A wide range of troubling behaviors in young children are both cause and result of stressed relationships. Addressing it early supports healthy development of the rapidly growing brain.

Face-to-Face Exchanges

• Why Screens Get in the Way Developmentally
It's the small moments — the face-to-face exchanges sometimes called “serve and return” interactions — that encourage attachment, warmth and trust between parent and child.

The Intricate Emotional Diaper Dance

• Why Diaper Changing is Important
Scientist Suzanne Zeedyk discusses how diaper changing (and the adult reaction to it) affects infant brain development.

Child Neglect

• Love is Not Enough
Child neglect is not about love. It's about brain growth, anchored in minute-to-minute and day-to-day interactions with caregivers. The science behind child welfare is discussed in a paper from Yale University's Institute for Child Success.

Laughing at Your Children

• Empathy, Compassion, Respect
Suzanne Zeedyk examines the impact of "funny" videos on a baby’s developing sense of self.

Children & Technology

• Children Use 4-5 x Recommended Amount of Technology
Infants aged 0-2 years should not have any exposure to technology, 3-5 years be restricted to one hour per day, and 6-18 years restricted to 2 hours per day.

The Teenage Brain

• Good Science Translated into Good Parenting
Frances Jensen writes A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults.

Redefining Mental Illness

• A New Approach
New approaches recognize that mental illnesses are complex individual responses, not  sharp, clear categories defining those who are sick and those who were well.

The Talking Cure

• How Parents Can Make the Difference
Talking––a lot–– to impoverished preschoolers helps bridge the achievement gap. It's free and it's effective.

What's Known About Autism

• Children Who Beat Autism 
New research suggests that one in 10 autistic children sheds symptoms before adulthood.

Quitodian *t*rauma

• Effects of Everyday (lowercase) trauma
Pediatrician Cynthia Gold discusses the developmental neuroscience behind this phenomenon.

Conversing With Infants and Toddlers

• Silence is Not Golden
Brain development is buoyed by continuous interaction with parents and caregivers from birth.

Self-Calming

• Rehabilitating After Early Trauma

Without appropriate adult support, childhood trauma can interfere with healthy brain development, inhibiting children’s ability to make good decisions, use memory or use sequential thought processes to work through problems.