Children and Family

Developmental Psychology and a Philosophical Approach to Parenting
by Stephen Gislason MD

Preface

Introduction

Three Worlds

Who Am I?

Stories

Values

Psychology

Beginner’s Brain

Ontogeny, Phylogeny

Interface between Body and World

Innate Tendencies

Self Evaluation

Personality and Eigenstates

Complaining and Casemaking

Bonding

Parents and other Caregivers

The Idea of Family

Needs, Goals and Errors

Compatibility and Family Karma

The Generous Parent

Rules

The Belligerent Parent

Children Need Other Children

Siblings

Conditioning, Choices, Freedom

Work and Order at Home

Other Caregivers

Adolescents

Divorce

Emotions, Feelings and Moods

Emotions Are Behaviors

Smiling, Laughing and Crying

Feelings Are Inner States

Feeling, Sensations and Body States

Euphoria

Anger

Calm and Clear

Emotional Karma

Love

Jealousy

Hostility and Hate

Empathy and Compassion

Altruism

Eigenstates

Learning & Development

Early Education

Language

Selftalk

Thinking?

Honesty?

Good and Bad Behavior

Intelligence and Learning

The Measurement of IQ

IQ and School Performance

Learning Modifies Brain Function

Learning and Innate Programs

Play

Reasoning

Praxis and Mimesis

Memory

The Right Education

Talking and Cooperating

What is Worth Remembering?

Simulation and Virtual Reality

Internet

Autistic Children

Psyche and Soma

Gender Differences

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Gender and Cognitive Skills

Puberty and Metamorphosis

Cross-gender

Problems with Food

Normal is Abnormal

Bad Behavior and Food

Infant Nutrition

Children’s Appetite

Weight

Eating Styles

Special Note to Parents

Gluten, Cow’s Milk and Autism

Mind Alteration on Prescription

Beware of Antipsychotic Drugs

Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity

Drugs and ADHD

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