Meritocratic Affection

• Love & Merit by David Brooks
Affection intermingled with the desire to help children achieve worldly success can morph into conditional love.

Realistic Dolls Are the Best Fantasy

• Dolly "Make-Unders"
A Tasmanian scientist plays with dolls and turns them into someone you might know.

The Teenage Brain

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

Great Parenting Advice

• For Real Mothers
“Don’t kill them. You’ll want to, but don’t.” They stop giggling and never ask me for parenting advice again.

Happy Birthday Mr. Rogers!

• Gone But Not Forgotten

Early Childhood Mental Health

• Helping Young Children
“Early childhood mental health consultant” evokes an image of a toddler on a couch talking to a therapist. In fact, the work focuses on helping adults to create healthy environments.

Relationship in Therapy

• Facilitating Parent and Child Reunion

Child mental health is about relationships, as is therapy. Happy Valentine's Day.