This story just breaks my heart. A 7-year old girl who was so neglected that she became a “feral child” — completely unable to relate to other people, process emotions, or relate to the world.
“I’ve been in rooms with bodies rotting there for a week and it never stunk that bad,” Holste said [...]
It used to be that a person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now? The government snoops on you through your children. Woe be to the person that does anything the government finds questionable.
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. [...]
This story (Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young - New York Times) made my pharmacist wife shake her head.
It seems more than a little overkill to ban an entire class of medicines just because a few doctors start jumping up and down and yelling “There’s no proof that it works! No proof!”
And look [...]
Various teaching methods intrigue me. What makes a good teacher or a bad teacher? What makes a kid learn or sleep through class? How can we best prepare the next generation to face an increasingly complex world?
I tend to largely agree with Alex Tabarrok: Heroes are not Replicable.
You know the plot. Young, [...]
I’ve discussed before how toy companies are using “safety” as an excuse to pile more and more regulations on top of their competitors. Mattel has been blaming China for a recent spate of recalls and using the accusations as leverage to push for more safety regulations.
Turns out, China wasn’t to blame.
Mattel Inc. made [...]
Toy manufacturers want to regulate toys coming into the United States, looking for dangerous materials like lead paint. But what’s the real cause of dangerous toys?
Design flaws, not Chinese manufacturing problems, are the cause of the vast majority of American toy recalls over the last two decades, according to a new study by [...]
Mattel, Hasbro, and Lego have figured out how to use the government to hurt their competitors. They’ll ask for more government regulation.
Acknowledging a growing crisis of public confidence caused by a series of recent recalls, the nation’s largest toy makers have taken the unusual step of asking the federal government to impose mandatory [...]
A Toast to Mom and Dad — The family that wines together, shines together.
Observant Jews, for example, traditionally serve children small glasses of wine during Friday night Sabbath ceremonies. Other cultures also begin socializing children into drinking at an early age–including Mediterranean societies such as Italy, Greece and Turkey (and non-Mediterranean societies such [...]
Babies not as innocent as they pretend | Science | Earth | Telegraph
Dr Reddy said: “Fake crying is one of the earliest forms of deception to emerge, and infants use it to get attention even though nothing is wrong. You can tell, as they will then pause while they wait to hear if [...]
Psycologist Robert Epstein doesn’t like adolescence.
Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, “The Case Against Adolescence,” that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them. The whole culture collaborates in artificially extending childhood, primarily through the school system [...]