What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind?
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The crucial new idea is that there are two different neural and psychological systems that interact to turn children into adults. Over the past two centuries, and even more over the past generation, the developmental timing of these two systems has changed. That, in turn, has profoundly changed adolescence and produced new kinds of adolescent woe.
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
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Sure, under parenting your children is dangerous. But so is over parenting. It seems that the trick with parenting is to back off, beyond what your first instinct might be. Just don’t get so far back that you can’t see your kids anymore.
Which might be how people like my patient Lizzie end up …
John Lasseter
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“He’s Lots-o-Huggin Bear from Toy Story 3, without the abandonment issues.”
Esquire profiles Pixar’s (and Disney’s) chief creative genius.
A Good Husband's Guide
Men and women are always arguing over who has the tougher role to play. Obviously, it’s the other gender.
Leanne Bell offers an interesting take, called the Good Husband’s Guide. Refreshingly, she takes the men’s side of the argument.
In May of 1955, a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly ran a short point-form article called ”The …
Progressively Regressive Child Care in Dane County
The Capital Times published an article on the shortage of child day care in Dane County. It’s not until the 11th paragraph that they finally reveal that the state government is to blame.
The primary reason it’s so hard to find care for infants is because of a state mandated caregiver-child ratio that requires …
Diversity in Ratings
Scene Stealer – The Web Is Pouncing on Hollywood’s Ratings – NYTimes.com
The standard Hollywood ratings — G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 — must now compete with all manner of Internet-based ratings alternatives, some of which are gaining new traction through social networking tools.
SceneSmoking.org, which monitors tobacco use in …
CPS: State Sponsored Kidnapping
You want an easy way to make me angry? Threaten my kids. You want an easy way to make me really angry? Assume that every parent is a bad parent and then threaten my kids because you can’t be bothered to figure out which type of parent I am. This story from ”Great” Britain makes …
We Put the Girl in the Window
This story just breaks my heart. A 7-year old girl who was so neglected that she became a ”feral child” — completely unable to relate to other people, process emotions, or relate to the world.
”I’ve been in rooms with bodies rotting there for a week and it never stunk that bad,” Holste said …
Under State Surveillance
It used to be that a person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now? The government snoops on you through your children. Woe be to the person that does anything the government finds questionable.
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. …
Minor Medicine Concerns
This story (Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young – New York Times) made my pharmacist wife shake her head.
It seems more than a little overkill to ban an entire class of medicines just because a few doctors start jumping up and down and yelling ”There’s no proof that it works! No proof!”
And look …