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A Family Affair

Parents, Children and Society

Punishment
Rewards are Better than Punishment: Here’s Why

Jay Belsky Ph.D. on September 25, 2008

What remains unknown is exactly what accounts for the change in brain functioning and how it occurs. Do new connections within or between brain regions emerge during the transition to adolescence?

What remains unknown is exactly what accounts for the change in brain functioning and how it occurs. Do new connections within or between brain regions emerge during the transition to adolescence?

Child Development
Middle Age Begins Before Birth

Jay Belsky Ph.D. on August 12, 2008

In my previous blog entry I floated the argument that for some it is commonsensical that what happens early in life is of little importance to how individuals turn out later in life. It appears to be indisputably the case that, at least in some respects, this claim is fundamentally false.

In my previous blog entry I floated the argument that for some it is commonsensical that what happens early in life is of little importance to how individuals turn out later in life. It appears to be indisputably the case that, at least in some respects, this claim is fundamentally false.

Genetics
Does how a young child is reared really matter?

Jay Belsky Ph.D. on July 30, 2008

 The answer to the question posed in the title is commonsensical to many, whether they be professionally trained child developmentalists or not. One thing that fascinates me is that what is common sense to some is more or less idiocy--I am being purposefully hyperbolic here--to others.

 The answer to the question posed in the title is commonsensical to many, whether they be professionally trained child developmentalists or not. One thing that fascinates me is that what is common sense to some is more or less idiocy--I am being purposefully hyperbolic here--to others.