It’s empowering sometimes, to take control of your own health, or parenting, or what not, with a few keystrokes. Other times, though, it can make you insane. Lisa Belkin on When Parents Know Too Much
When my son had some funky test results after a medical check-up last year, his doctor’s first advice to me was “don’t Google it.” I did anyway, of course, and he was right. Googling was a bad idea.
We live in a time when all information is literally at our fingertips, but we don’t always know how to filter it. It’s empowering sometimes, to take control of your own health or parenting or what not with a few keystrokes. Other times, though, it can make you insane.
Jennifer Gruden met her husband online nearly 20 years ago. She earns her living online, as a Web editor for More.ca, the Web site for Canada’s version of More magazine. An expatriate New Yorker who now lives in Toronto, she could not imagine life without her computer. On the other hand, she explains in a guest post today, it is not always her friend. Read More
The findings of the independent Belgian and Dutch research projects will be presented at Helping Families Change, an international parenting conference at the University of Queensland on Wednesday February 17 and Thursday February 18.
In the Belgian study, conducted at a youth mental health unit at the University of Antwerp, mothers who had a child receiving psychiatric care (for conditions including depression and anxiety) completed an eight-week Group Triple P program, in addition to their own regular therapeutic support and the child’s usual treatment. [continue reading…]
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What’s the single most important thing that helps infants learn language?
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children is a collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronsonand Ashley Merryman. They argue that when it comes to children, we’ve mistaken good intentions for good ideas. They demonstrate that many of modern society’s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring–because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
There is an interesting review of Nutureshock in today’s Independent Why Parents are getting it wrong
Tell us what you think- is too much praise a bad thing, what about spanking? What are your thoughts on children and lying?
“I’ll never be like my parents.”Many youngsters must have said this at least once in their lives. The truth emerges as soon as you have your own children: you increasingly become more like your own parents. Dutch researcher Freek Bucx analysed data from more than a thousand young adults, their parents and partners. Children make you more like your own parents, but a partner who doesn’t get on well with his or her ‘in-laws’ can really sour the relationship between you and your parents. [continue reading…]
is a collaboration between award-winning science journalists 