Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...

<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...

Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...

Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children who do receive attention, it is frequently inadequate. To assume, however, that prelatency children are...

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...