Marketing normal development manufactures a problem in need of a solution, which typically appears in the form of an expensive product. As a result, the vulnerability and fears of new parents get most exploited.
Parents & Kids
Kids are more resilient than you think, but are also magical thinkers. In the absence of direct communication from a parent, they will create their own narrative which can foster greater worry.
It is time to push back over society's chaos-aversion. The price the next generation is paying is too great.
Substitute the word "Halloween" for any celebratory event and pervasive worry-lists abound. Fun also matters.
Now, Disney Princesses and films are under attack. We are straying further and further from what most impacts child development, as a source of adult challenges.
With continued refrains of "too many" or "too few" being applied to manners of birth, which often serve to shame or assign blame, the focus is on the wrong issue. A new study on delivery mode helps inform us on this topic.
Rushing through the seemingly mundane aspects of childhood might not be playing the long game.
Many well-intended efforts that fixate on bias can achieve the unintended consequence of imposing it instead.
A new paper throws every journalism clickbait notion into one epidemiological claim. Take a look.
Virtual reality devices track our body language, which can pick us out in a crowd. A pediatrician ponders whether this is yet another way we are robbing our youth of its innocence.
Did team sports for kids evolve from hunter-gatherers who needed to practice for war? A new paper suggests that is so.
It's normal for a baby to be difficult to get to sleep, which is clearly exhausting for new parents. Bu, expensive "sleep consultants" aren't the answer.