Sticky people
The primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is interviewed in the New York Times about her new book on cooperative parenting. BabiesContinue Reading
Category: the baby in the mirror
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Image via Wikipedia ‘Dad?’ ‘Mm?’ ‘How do stars explode?’ It is early on a Monday morning. The alarm clock hasContinue Reading
Scary stories
A few weeks ago, I spoke to Laura Kelly from The Big Issue in Scotland about modernising influences on children’sContinue Reading
Children in the camcorder’s eye
I’ll be at the British Library on Tuesday, talking about how digital technologies help in our understanding of children’s minds,Continue Reading
Michael’s memory
It’s clear enough that most adults do not have accurate memories for events from toddlerhood and infancy. But do small childrenContinue Reading
Running from the Spider-Baby
I’ve talked a bit about children’s ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. One much-loved child in the shape of anContinue Reading
Trusting early memories
One group of people who need to know about children’s minds are those who deal with them in a legalContinue Reading
Around the table
Developmental psychologists like their laboratories and their experimental tasks, but they also recognise that many of the complexities of children’sContinue Reading
Is he nearly here yet?
Isaac can’t wait. Today is Christmas Eve, which means that tonight Santa Claus will come down the chimney and ‘drinkContinue Reading
A Thousand Days of Wonder
In April next year, Avery (a division of Penguin USA) will publish The Baby in the Mirror in its US edition.Continue Reading
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