TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids hate news and mustard. Well, mustard even has the word ‘turd’ in it....

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn’t really know.I didn’t know how exhausted it was possible to become, or...

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order...

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the...

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products....

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He’s been...

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from...

Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time,...

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.