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

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Stealing Words' Meanings for Fun and Profit: Floortime(TM) and Tummy Time

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In the Alice books, Humpty Dumpty and Alice have an argument. H.D. says that as far as he is concerned “glory” means “a nice knock-down ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

"Taming Tiny Tigers", by Kali Miller: A Tale Told With Trepidation

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Let me note first that the trepidation I’m talking about is my own, as Kali Miller does not seem to experience any. And my trepidation is a...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Psychology License Revoked? Become a Parent Coach! (The Kali Miller Story)

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Every state in the U.S. has a professional licensing board that can grant licenses to clinical psychologists, and can revoke or limit those...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Sundance Canyon Academy Requests Severe Criticism (Inadvertently)

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Some days ago I received an e-mail from one, Justin Taylor, representing Sundance Canyon Academy, a residential treatment facility in Utah ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Trauma: The New Explanation for Everything, and a Bad Example

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There’s no question that psychological as well as physiological trauma is very real and can have long-term ill effects. Infants and young c...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The Harris Case: Attachment,Trauma, Ambiguity, and Investigation

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Unless you read only the New York Times (which hasn’t mentioned a word of this), you are probably aware of the Arkansas case of Justin Har...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Attachment and Trauma Network Defends the Harrises

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When anybody gets caught harming children by applying attachment therapy and parenting as proposed by Nancy Thomas, you can bet the Interne...
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The Primal Wound and the Trojan Horse in Ontario

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Some time ago, I wrote a post about how misinformation sneaks into public thinking when braided together with accurate information ( http:/...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

How Would a Child Feel If Told She Was Possessed by Demons?

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Continuing to read about the claims that the young sisters in the Justin Harris case were possessed by demons and required exorcism ( www.n...
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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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