Posts by VKHarberRYT

Apparently, this past Saturday was the 4th annual "Take Our Children to the Park...and Leave Them There Day."   This day is an effort to encourage children aged 7 or 8 and up to have undirected and unsupervised play by...

Great article in the New York Times about the unintended consequences of "helicopter parenting".    The article says:  The study, led by the sociologist Laura T. Hamilton of the University of California, Merced,...

A new study published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology suggests that children parented by a "Tiger Mother" do not have the highest rates of academic and socio-emotional success. The study was covered on NPR and you can read...

Just read an interesting article in the NY Times, Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit, by a doctor who suggests that many diagnosis of A.D.H.D. may actually be a missed sleep disorder.    He...

Sorry about that. I think it was a link to a power point presentation.    To answer your specific question, self-directed play does not mean alone, it means that the child is able to lead the play and the adult follows....

It is my understanding that self-directed play means following the child's lead. Here's a good resource. http://www.burrowmoor.net/documents/oosc/self_directed_play.ppt

I'm in the midst of reading Playful Parenting, so this article caught my attention. It really points out how play is so essential, not only to individual children, but to the evolution of our...

There is a really interesting article in the New York Times about a study that seems to have discovered a link between autism and the number of abnormal creases in the placenta.    The article...

Scientists have studied the heart rates of infants when they are picked up by a loving caregiver and now have measured proof that their heart rate slows within seconds of being...

There's a whole lot on the web this week about Elimination Communication and going diaper-free. I'm curious what everyone thinks about it.    You can read some reactions and opinions about it here in the Huffington Post,...