CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

Monday, January 30, 2012

Shades of "The Snake Pit": The Wet Pack is Back

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I thank my colleague Linda Rosa for bringing this to my attention: http://autismum.com/2012/01/18/le-packing-pack-it-in . The piece descri...

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Friday, January 27, 2012

If It Isn't Spanking That's a Problem, What Else Could It Be?

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Recently I’ve spent quite a bit of time in discussion with Jeff of punishmentmadeobsoletebypsychology.blogspot.com. Jeff maintains that ...

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Regression Myth versus Developmentally Appropriate Practice

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A disturbing report about a family in Snohomish, WA ( www.heraldnet.com/article/20120121/NEWS01/701219927 ) states that a college-age ad...

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Monday, January 16, 2012

What About Alice Miller?

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Reader Neil Samuels has queried my unwillingness to accept Alice Miller’s views on physical punishment as necessarily correct, and has asked...

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Comments I Can't Respond To

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There have been several comments in the last couple of days that I'd like to answer, but blogspot doesn't seem to let me. This has h...

Monday, January 9, 2012

Physical Punishment Tales from the Memory Vault

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All this discussion of physical punishment has brought back memories from the long ago, and I want to recount one just to show how complicat...

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

More Mulling on Physical Punishment

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Boy, I never thought I’d be arguing against people who argue against physical punishment for children. However, I think and have always thou...

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Alice Miller, Physical Punishment, Ideology, and Reasoned Approaches to Parenting

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On a number of recent occasions, I’ve come up against statements and ideas ascribed to Alice Miller, the late Swiss psychoanalyst. As Neil S...

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Those Empathic Rats: Take Two

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I jumped the gun the other day by trying to comment on a research report as it was described on an NPR interview and in the Science Times . ...

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Those Empathic Rats: Motivation and a Missing Measure

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N.B.-- 12/14: I may have been wrong in my remarks here. Read the comments that follow, too. On NPR, in blogs, in Science , in the New York T...

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Jean Mercer: Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.

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