Practice and the Middle Prefrontal Cortex
The human brain is a construction project in which genetics supplies the building blocks but social interaction largely determines how they are put together. Dr. Daniel J. Siegel In May I gave an overview of the four patterns of relationship seen in the Strange Situation: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized. I described what researchers saw in the interactions between mother and baby at home and how these babies responded to separations from their mother in the Strange Situation. I also pointed out that infants can have different patterns of response to different caregivers, for...
Read MoreThe Sacred Genius of Generosity
The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun’s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer, as each day the Sun dies as Sun and is reborn as the Vitality of Earth. Every child of ours needs to learn the simple truth: She is the energy of the Sun. And we adults should organize things so her face shines with the same radiant joy. Human generosity is possible only because at the center of the solar system a...
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Chris White, M.D. is a board-certified pediatrician whose parenting work aims to optimize the developmental potential of children and their parents. He regularly writes on 
