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• Building Good Day Care

  by Mary Biggs, Director, Basic Trust Day Care
  When I was asked to write an article on what it takes to run a good child care program for children under the age of five, I thought “What an impossible question. I want to answer it!” I think the answer, like most things of any worth, is that it takes a really good idea. The right idea. A good and right idea is a rare thing. It is like a key that opens every door. It’s a hand that guides you through the darkest place. It sorts the wheat from the chaff. You can return to it again and again and it never stops providing answers, inspiration and wisdom. Download the full article here

• Adolescence: What's the Brain Got to Do with It?

  by Harold Koplewicz, President, Child Mind Institute Mark Twain famously said, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
  Teenagers, as many a beleaguered parent can testify, often seem to inhabit a slightly parallel universe, populated only by their peers. Filled with their own passion, conviction and certitude, they can be notoriously deaf to the voice of reason or caution. This makes them prone to exuberant overconfidence, on the one hand, and profound angst on the other. This emotional roller coaster led Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud’s daughter, to claim that having depression is part of being an adolescent. Click here to download the full article