Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably the most celebrated child prodigy in history, composing his first pieces of music aged ...
The word that distinguishes spirited children is more. They are typical children and yet more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children. All ...
As school returns, parents and teachers might each be faced with the familiar chorus of “I can’t find my school jumper” and “I left my hat at home”. For parents of older kids, the stakes may be even ...
My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...
Parents often unconsciously favor 'struggling' children over self-reliant ones, a phenomenon called Compensatory Parenting.
Because what looks like resistance to these parents is often something else entirely in their adult children's minds. It's ...