Just about no topic makes parents more uncomfortable than a child’s sexual curiosity.
But here is a simple fact, more than half of all children will engage in some kind of sexual behavior before their 13th birthdays — a statistic that is almost certain to make most parents squirm.
That statistic, however, begs a far more important [...]

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We are born with the skill to negotiate. In our first weeks it may just be as simple as a howl to signal that we are hungry or uncomfortable. But within a few months we begin to set out much more elaborate messages, from smiles, coos and laughs, to scowls, cries and grimaces the human [...]

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Neuroscientists are discovering that babies love the sound of words. That is not something that would intuitively occur to a parent since it will be ten or more months into a child’s life before simple words like mama and dada start to be spoken.

Studies have shown that a child, up to the age of eight [...]

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