We know our children must grow up, and sometimes we prod and persuade them into growing up as soon as possible. A midwife tells us that cuddling will spoil a newborn infant; a mother weans her bab ...
Four years ago, heavily pregnant with my first daughter, I read a book about childrearing. The Continuum Concept, by Jean Liedloff, tells of the author's excursions to live with a remote tribe (t ...
Two recently released studies which crossed my desk this month make a telling statement about the way that the West has chosen to care for small children in the late Twentieth century. ...