Stop fretting about Children's Play
Earlier this week the UK clinical psychologist and television supernanny, Professor Tanya Byron, warned that parental ‘paranoia' about child safety could expose children to greater risks indoors. She...
View ArticleHow the quack industry harms autistic children
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author of Defeating Autism, recently talked to me about how raising a child with autism can be made infinitely harder - emotionally, financially and practically - by the...
View ArticleChimps are like humans? Stop monkeying around
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about ‘clever chimps' using tools, doing maths and feeling human emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely...
View ArticleThe 'stranger danger' panic is creating a hostile adult world
Some of the UK's leading children's authors have announced this week that they are refusing to take part in readings in schools because of the new policy that requires them to undergo criminal records...
View ArticleThe myth of depressed and messed up kids
‘As I sometimes say to parents, I wish I had a dollar for every time I have read, in the last ten years, the words "children" and "crisis" in the same sentence. I'd be set for life', writes...
View ArticleThe myth of racist kids
The problem with anti-bullying and anti-racist policiesread more
View ArticleChimps don't mourn like humans
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.read more
View ArticleHow the pedophile panic harms children
Two parents, Oliver and Gillian Schonrock, have inspired a heated debate in the UK this week about how much independence children should have. The couple from south London have been allowing their...
View ArticleCan orang-utans really mime?
Experts should know better than to claim that great apes can communicate in a similar way to human beings.read more
View ArticleShould apes have rights?
We have built cities, cured diseases and created art, yet some people think humans are worth no more than apes.read more
View ArticleRestating the case for human uniqueness
The evidence for apes having human-like mental capacities is getting weaker and weaker. read more
View ArticleExploring the chasm that separates great apes from humans
Humans are not just social, we are 'ultra social.'read more
View ArticleOnly Humans Have Morality, Not Animals
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.read more
View ArticleThere Is No Evidence Television Is Bad For Kids
The recent claim that too much television is bad for children is just another policy agenda dressed up as science.read more
View ArticleDoes Watching TV Give You Cancer? Of Course Not
News reports claiming that TV-addicted kids risk getting cancer confirm that the scaremongers mean business in 2013. It’s time to fight back. read more
View ArticleBullying: the need to reframe the debate
As adults we should be asking ourselves whether we are helping or hindering children and young people by the way we talk about and deal with bullying. Adults undoubtedly need to find ways of helping...
View ArticleDSM-5: A Disaster for Children
Christopher Lane talks to Helene Guldberg about the newly published fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – ‘a legal document facilitating the medication of...
View ArticleWe Are Not Determined by Early Experiences
Whether based on attachment theory or neurobabble, the claim that human beings are set in stone by the age of three is groundless.read more
View ArticleLet's Not Obsess About 'Sibling Bullying'
In the vast majority of cases, sibling rivalries do no more harm than irritate the hell out of parents.read more
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