" For the most part, parenting is something we just do, without really giving it much thought,"
says Laurence Steinberg, one of the country's most distinguished psychologists. Most of us …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled
the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents …

Each day more than three quarters of a million adults around the world experience the
rewards and challenges as well as the joys and heartaches of becoming parents. Of course …

Parenting: What Really Counts? examines the scientific evidence on what really matters for
children's healthy psychological development. The first section considers whether it is …

Recognize the hidden costs and rewards of childrearing! The Effect of Children on Parents,
Second Edition, thoughtfully explores the interactions by which parents and children …

IT IS OFTEN claimed that psychology became a science in the second half of the 19th
century, led in part by continental (mostly German) research on perception, psychophysics …

In recent years, revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience and developmental psychology
have transformed our understanding of infant development. We now know that starting from …

For too long, we've thought of fathers as little more than sources of authority and economic
stability in the lives of their children. Yet cutting-edge studies drawing unexpected links …