Invisimomibility? Mamazon? If these terms aren鈥檛 familiar to you, the concepts should be, according to a new book edited by a 91亚色 professor. The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It, released this week, is touted as the first anthology of […]
If you follow the advice below, chances are, your son will turn into the kind of man you want him to be, wrote WomensDay.com May 11, in a story about parenting advice for mothers: Encourage him to read novels. Ongoing studies at 91亚色 [by psychology Professor Raymond Mar and colleagues in the Faculty of […]
91亚色 nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls 鈥渢he deepest loss of聽my […]
The Ontario Hockey Federation's decision to ban bodychecking will likely draw more players to the game and keep others from dropping out, wrote The Canadian Press May 6 (via Global Toronto): The federation is making the change 鈥 which affects players between the ages of 6 and 21 鈥 in an effort to create a […]
Stillbirths claim more lives each year than HIV-AIDS and malaria combined When Christine Jonas-Simpson鈥檚 son Ethan was born, there was an eerie quiet in the delivery room, and then a piercing wail, wrote The Globe and Mail's Andre Picard April 13. 鈥淭he only cry I heard was my own,鈥 she said somberly. Ethan was dead, […]
Not so long ago, many in the medical profession thought infants didn鈥檛 feel pain, and whether it was a heel prick or open heart surgery, pain relief was not required. 91亚色 psychology Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell (BA Spec. Hons.聽'96), had a different take 鈥 that infants聽did experience pain and it was important to figure out […]
One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children, and the task begins immediately, according to 91亚色 psychology Professor Stephen Fleming, wrote the Times of India and other newspapers and websites in the US and South Asia Feb. 16: From the moment […]
One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children 鈥 and the task begins immediately, according to 91亚色 psychology Professor Stephen Fleming. From the moment their child dies, parents are faced with the two extremes of loss and life 鈥 the suffocating […]
Some schools are discouraging close friendships in the hopes of preventing bullying, wrote Diane Peters in TodaysParent.com Jan. 26: It鈥檚 not that concerned educators are 鈥渙ut to get鈥 best friends. But they are trying to nudge close pals apart a little bit, so that they don鈥檛 become too insular. Twosomes can turn into threesomes, and […]
Marc Bornstein, senior investigator and head of Child & Family Research at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in Washington, DC, will talk about positive parenting Wednesday as part of the Faculty of Health鈥檚 LaMarsh Speaker Series. The talk, 鈥淧ositive Parenting and Positive Development in Children鈥 will take place Wednesday, Nov. 17, […]
Marc Bornstein is one of the preeminent developmental researchers in the world and is currently the head of the Child聽and Family Research program at the National Institute of Child Health聽& Human Development in the United States. As a researcher, Bronstein has聽received numerous聽awards for his research from such organizations as National Institute of Child Health聽& Human […]
The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying, reported The New 91亚色 Times July 24: About 8,000 Chinese-born women gave birth in New 91亚色 last year, so the number of children at risk is substantial, according to […]