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Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World is a parenting book written by Marybeth Hicks. She is an author and weekly columnist on family issues at the Washington Post. She is also a popular speaker on raising children in today’s world.
In her book she provides parents with information on [...]
By Gary Direnfeld, MSW
Many parents strive to have happy kids. In their efforts, they are loath to see their children upset and seem to do anything to allay the child’s consternation. So, what child wants, child gets. Child doesn’t want, child doesn’t have to do.
There is a belief by these parents that their children will be naturally appreciative [...]
By Gail Fernandez, MD
Torgeir Alvestad, a researcher from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, has written a fascinating thesis paper based on studying the play of two and three-year olds. He finds that children this age are able to negotiate during play. In these negotiations they demonstrated invention, creativity, enthusiasm, industry, involvement, activity and problem-solving strategies.
The results show [...]
By Gail Fernandez, MD
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University have found that signs of schizophrenia can be detected in babies as young as a few weeks old. Their study is published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is found in 1% of all individuals in the world, [...]
By Gail Fernandez, MD
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is an eating disorder in which an individual eats large quantities of food, usually very quickly. However, unlike Bulimia, the person does not “purge” the food by vomiting, use of laxatives, or excessive exercise.
A recent study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders by clinical psychologist David M. Dunkley and colleagues at the Jewish [...]