The creative parent must guard against protecting the creative child from the realities of everyday life, at the cost of the child's failure to develop a true social sensitivity. (PHR)

Presents a functionalist perspective on emotion communication and its role in the development of shame and guilt. Emotion communication influences relationship-building between parent and child; gives significance to standards, rules, and achievement; and serves as a channel of communication between parent and child regarding standards, rules, and…

Twenty-four caregivers and their 2- to 4-year-old children took part in a storybook reading task in which caregivers taught children novel labels for familiar objects. Findings indicate parental speech could provide a rich source of information to children in learning how different lexical categories are expressed in their native language.…

Recalls the author's experience of reading Violet Needham's "The Black Riders." Examines the book for its powerful version of family romance and its investigation of emotions, fears, longings; and desires children have about parents, growing up, puberty, and sex. (TB)

Considers several ways to help children make decisions, develop new friends, and seek independence. Six types of parental helping, which vary in style and kind of help given, are discussed. (NH)

Mourning which results from loss of country and the threat to identity posed by the migration process are examined. Attention is given to nostalgia, similarities between a parent and a country, and between parent loss and loss of country. Parallels between parents and country are highlighted in a case vignette. (IAH)

Notes that the relationship between father and adolescent son is one of the most difficult of human associations. Argues that the poetic, specifically the use of popular music, humor, and poetry/creative writing, can facilitate communication between father and son. (SR)

Discusses two problems in the study by Blass and Ciaramitaro reported in this monograph: (1) whether the measurement of behavior states as "on-off" or "graded" captures a behavioral process or reflects the measurement itself; (2) whether the term "state" explains findings as a single function that may be better…

Provides critical commentary on Nicholas Eberstadt's assertion that low-weight births and infant mortality among blacks in Washington, DC, is mainly the result of high rates of illegitimacy and other parental behaviors. Nicholas Eberstadt's response is included. (GLR)

Presents an interview with Perri Klass, pediatrician, columnist, and author of two novels, a volume of short stories, and several essays. (SR)

Describes perspectives on the socialization of cognition and emotion and discusses limitations of these perspectives. Key findings from one field are used to extend work in the other, and are interpreted in the framework of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. (Author/BB)

Describes experience of helping two sets of divorcing parents retain meaningful contact between young children and non-resident fathers. Argues that failure to consider past parenting practices, to grant children party status and give them independent representation, and to offer child-centered services to help parents practice shared parenting…

This historical article from 1881 provides insights from a man with deafness and the challenges he faced as a child in understanding the divinity of creation. His relationship with his family and his religious awakening is described. (CR)

Suggests that Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" is a faithful and a "profoundly subversive" revision of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Argues that the terms in which the novel have been most frequently praised, no less than the case made for banning it, raise important questions about the relationship between the novel's…

Describes the shifts in the author's literacy in the three years she has been a mother. Discusses the two books she has had time to read for pleasure, as well as the books she has written and edited (in her role as a teacher educator). Shares how this reflects the fragmented, challenging, exhilarating existence of motherhood. (SR)