My 4-year-old hits my 9-month-old. It is very hard to see any danger signs with him as he will push or hit her out of the blue. One minute he is sitting there patting her gently and cooing and then in a flash he will push her over or hit her. There is ...
4. It teaches us about our body parts. Aside from confronting the very fact that you’ll be a grown-up and a working-adult several years from now, teenage years are for us to learn about our own bodies. Jessi, for one, decides to use a mirror to check what’s underneath. Turns ou...
Kids As new parents, you probably expectedyour baby to fight sleep. Everyone knows that newborns and sleepless nights go hand in hand. Good thing babies are so cute, right? However, you may be surprised to find that, after crushing the sleep department for a couple years, your little one...
sex at its best is unstructured play with friends, a category of experience that … time diaries … tell us has been decreasing for American adolescents. It takes idle hands to get past first base, and today’s kids have a lot to do. ...
If you are old enough to have been parent to a teenager around the year 1990, you may recall that your kid was the one clamoring for a home computer. Kids nearly always, everywhere, glom on to new technology and become skilled at it before adults do. (This may be a t...
The increasingly challenging obstacles combined with intermittent rewards that produce a “hit” of dopamine makes for games that most adults can’t resist, not to mention kids. The Underlying Needs Just as I mentioned how I try to observe when my kids are most drawn to video games, researcher...
Why do kids and toddlers bite? Children ages 1 to 3 years old may bite when they're overcome by feelings like fear, anger, and frustration; they're overstimulated; or they'reteething. They may also bite because someone bit them first. Toddlers often bite during a fight if they...
Why I hit MY KIDSFocuses on the reason why actor Damon Wayans hits his children. Relationship with his eldest son.Woman's Day (Australia Edition)
Anyone who has played baseball or softball for some length of time has probably experienced the painful sting resulting from a poorly hit ball. I have seen college players and adults shaking out their hands after dropping the bat, and I've heard from young kids who want to quit playing base...
Unconvinced: Do these kids really study like crazy? OK, some people pointed out that I don’t know what I’m talking about, and people in the US value education the same way. Let me tell you this to be convincing: A good amount of middle school students from Taiwan live like this (...