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Do you have questions about your child's development?

Are you a new parent wondering what your baby should be doing at different ages?Are you unsure what questions your physician will ask your child...

Wish I'd known then

If we’d only known then what we know now. Of course life doesn’t work that way, but perspective, time, age, and if we’re smart,...

Lying and Other Developmental Issues

Traditional childrearing methods often focus on blaming a child for undesirable behaviors and punishing the child to end those behaviors. One of...

Oasis For Girls

I contacted Jessica Van Tuyl, the executive director of Oasis For Girls, to get information about her program in order to inform San Franciscans...

The Sad Misuse of Self-esteem

Self-esteem is the most misunderstood and misused developmental factor of the past thirty years. And, having spoken at many schools in the Bay Area...

Alison Gopnick: Babies learn by playing

I was thrilled to read Berkeley professor and author Alison Gopnick's recent New York Times piece about the way babies learn by playing. Indeed,...

Finding the Best in your Child

As parents, we often send a message to our children, that they need to do something really big, especially when parents are accomplished themselves...