Whether a parent or a professional caregiver, anyone who has cared for children is likely to have dozens of questions about their development. With the intent of providing up-to-date information on the medical, psychological, educational and legal issues related to children and their development, a leading group of scholars has created The Child: An Encyclopedia Companion. [continue reading…]
A conversation with the Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development and she was one of the founders of the study of “theory of mind”, illuminating how children come to understand the minds of others, and she formulated the “theory theory”, the idea that children’s learn in the same way that scientists do.
Source: Big Think
This week in the New Yorker Magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about Alloy Entertainment, which produces best-selling books for teens and tweens, and Daniel Zalewski writes about parent-child dynamics in picture books. Here Zalewski and Mead talk with Blake Eskin about how these books represent parents, what they read as children, and the difference between “Gossip Girl” and “The House of Mirth.”
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Source: The New Yorker
Almost 15 percent of preschoolers have atypically high levels of depression and anxiety, according to a new study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The five-year investigation also found that children with atypically high depression and anxiety levels are more likely to have mothers with a history of depression.
The study was conducted in Canada by an international team of researchers from the Université de Montréal, the Université Laval and McGill University, as well as Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) in France, Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. and University College Dublin in Ireland. [continue reading…]
