...with a woman who was foster-parenting her two young grandchildren, who were Besser's patients. To treat their obesity, he recommended an hour of outside play each day. But in her...
June Gordon, MD, was nine months pregnant with her second child when she graduated from Stanford's emergency medicine residency program last spring. She was a bit of an anomaly; the...
How a child learns its first words, and the similarities of early language acquisition across cultures, is the focus of a recent episode of Stanford Radio's "School’s In" featuring Michael...
Cori Poffenberger, MD, is a physician in the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine, with three children under the age of six. At a recent department tailgate party, her daughter Eliza...
...be passed along to the next generation in two ways: through parenting from a person with psychological challenges and through the expression of genes related to the stress response system...
...split the curriculum for other purposes -- parenting a new baby, training for the Olympics, writing a novel or just slowing down the pace of learning. The advantage of the...
...of a DBT-based parenting intervention to flesh out parenting skills that help moms and dads know how to respond to teen in crisis, how to keep them safe. Individuals in...
What do teenagers do when their parents aren’t supervising their food choices? Do they eat healthy lunches, or return home with junk food wrappers stuffed in the dark recesses of...
Like older adults who grew up with the threat of nuclear bombs during the Cold War, children are now growing up with mass shootings — the new normal. Since the...
