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Helping Your Child Succeed at School
Getting good grades is easier for students when parents are involved in their education. Here are 7 ways to help your child succeed at school.
Werner Dürrson – Lohmann oder Die Kunst ...
„Lohmann oder Die Kunst sich das Leben zu nehmen" erzählt von dem Leben als Literat und Übersetzer, von dem Kampf um und mit der Kunst. Ein Leben im 20. Jahrhundert.
Why We're Scared of Snakes
Many people are scared of snakes and spiders, which is why ophidiophobia & arachnophobia are common phobias. Here's an evolutionary reason for our fear of snakes.
Christmas and Divorce for Kids
These suggestions for a divorced family Christmas will help give the gift of love and harmony. Christmas and divorce for kids can be peaceful, not painful.
How to Lose Yourself in 10 Ways
Your social identity and self concept can be buried in family expectations, professional obligations, and cultural norms. Here's how self concept and self esteem are lost
Physical Effects of Child Abuse
The effects of physical child abuse range from depression to rage. Here's how to survive child abuse - even if you're no longer an abused kid.
10 Ways to Reduce Kids’ Stress
Kids love Christmas, but they too feel stress & anxiety over the holidays, especially if parents are stressed. These 10 tips will help children cope with holiday anxiety.
How Birth Order Changes Your Life
Birth order affects your life, job, marriage, and earning power! Here's a summary of the personality characteristics of first born, middle born, and last born children.
Psychological Bullying
Bullying isn't limited to pushes ahd punches in the schoolyard. Psychological bullying is behavior that intentionally harms another person, and has nasty consequences.
Autism Symptoms and Treatments
A natural perspective on the causes, symptoms, and treatments for childhood autism. This recent autism information includes information about natural treatments.
Treatments for Autism
Jenny McCarthy wrote a book about healing autism, her relationship with Jim Carrey, & trusting a mom's instincts. McCarthy claims autism can be treated & cured.
Overweight Kids Miss More School
Obese children miss more school than their peers, setting themselves up for increased drug use, pregnancy & other problems later in life. Try these weight loss tips.
Baby DVDs & Child Development
If you're considering child development courses or language acquisition products like Baby Einstein to teach your baby new words, be sure to do the research first.


Contributing Articles in Developmental Psychology

The Five Major Theories of Creativity
Humankind has always wondered why some individuals are more creative than others, and the five major theories of creativity provide possible explanations.
Samuel Smiles Founder of The Self Help Book
Published on the same day in 1859 as Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Self Help by Samuel Smiles outsold Darwin's book. Find out more about his life and work.
The Myths of Unconditional Love
Unconditional love is often mistaken for tolerating abuse, poor behavior and other ills.
What is Unconditional Love?
The desire to love and in return to be loved is something that all people share.
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
Erikson's theory is about how individual growth is entwined with social factors and events. Society helps us develop skills that in return make us more mature.
Development of personality
The article speaks about the Freudian perspective of infant development and the anxities and conflictts realted to it. The formation of personality in this stage.