The Growing Years: Doctor's Role as Counselor, A
Cathy Parrish has developed a relationship of trust with her patients that allows them to talk to her about issues they might not feel comfortable sharing with their parents. That is the value of having the same doctor o..
The Growing Years: Does Daycare Impair Attachment?
For many children today childcare and preschool begin at an early age. A National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study shows that most children do well in daycare as long as the quality of childcare is g..
The Growing Years: Early Motor Development
As the infant's muscles and nervous systems mature, more complex skills emerge...first sitting, then standing, and walking. The brain uses the sensory feedback it receives to guide the development of movement. The age at..
The Growing Years: Hold Me; Read to Me!
Babies need to be touched and loved. In fact without stimulation, infants do very badly. Reading to a child at a young age stimulates brain development and enhances the relationship between parent and child. The idea is ..
The Growing Years: Increasing Incidence of Childhood Obesity
An estimated 25% of American children are at risk for obesity, many with elevated levels of cholesterol and blood pressure. Numerous children exhibit a high percentage of plaque and hardening of the arteries before the a..
The Growing Years: Overload--How Much Activity Is Too Much
Scheduling too much activity for children can create a stressful situation for the whole family. Time to relax, to eat slow unhurried balanced meals, to do nothing but "kick back" at home with family members is healthy f..
The Growing Years: Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage Revisited
Piaget believed that by the age of 6 or 7 children are able to move beyond simple mathematical operations to the "concrete operational stage." Then as children approach adolescence they begin to think outside the box of ..
The Growing Years: Protecting Young Children Against Illness
Raising healthy children may not be the challenge it was a century ago, but it is far from automatic. In order to have a healthy child pediatricians recommend limiting their exposure to germs and providing a balanced die..
The Growing Years: Social Development and Attachment
From the moment of birth, children are social creatures. Infants in all cultures develop an intense bond with their caregivers, a bond researchers call attachment. The experiences children have in the first years of life..
The Heard Island Test and Climate Change
Renowned oceanographer and geophysicist Walter Munk talks about efforts to measure ocean warming through sound in a test done near Heard Island, an area considered unique because sound emanating from that point can theor..