July/August 2012: Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward of Kids First: Send in your input and do the poll. Here is an uncut version of the Costco article with references/links (PDF)
Category: Children’s Well-Being
“Gender equity” style parenting resulted in more mental health problems for kids
March 2012: Study published in International Journal for Equity in Health of "gender equity" parenting (both parents spending equal amounts of time at jobs and doing child care) in Sweden finds children have more mental health problems with gender equal…
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Ottawa Citizen Article: Comments from Neufeld
Feb 2012: Ottawa Citizen article "All work and no play . . . Is not good for the developing brain, says psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld." Neufeld says, "The only resistance I get is from policy-makers."
Norway bullying Indian parents by taking away their children
Norway bullying Indian parents by taking away their children… for breastfeeding responsively, co-sleeping, and teaching their children to eat with their hand! Read more:23 January 2012. Mail Online - (web): "Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers…
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World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator
World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator (broken link). Use it to “prove” the more you spend, the more you save: $1 produces $2-$17 in savings.
Association for Psychological Science, “How Devoted Moms Buffer Kids In Poverty“.
This peer-reviewed study indicates that maternal nurturing and not only socio-economic status is associated with better health outcomes. The study was led by UBC psychologist Dr Gregory Miller. Miller works in exactly the field UBC’s HELP claims expertise in, yet…
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Sept 14 2011: Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds
September, 14 2011. The Telegraph - article (web): Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds
Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing: August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011. The New York Times -article (web): "The Kids Are Not All Right" by UBC law professor, Joel Bakan, author of “The Corporation” and the new “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children”
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show on Corus radio.
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show (broken link) on Corus radio. Go to 8/20, segment “Another teen set to…”
Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys
August 15, 2011: Article in PNAS (scholarly journal) - "Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys"
Nordic childcare model best for economic and social wellbeing
Jun 9, 2011. The Irish Times - article (web): "Nordic childcare model best for economic and social wellbeing" by Dympna Devine and Ursula Kilkelly
Large longitudinal study shows link between breastfeeding and better mental health into adolescence
June 7 20011. The Attached Family - article (web): "The Link Between Breastfeeding and Mental Health"
From the Gordon Neufeld Institute:
Neufeld on the Vancouver riots:2011. Gordon Neufeld. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Uncovering the Roots of Delinquency" Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing:2011. Deborah MacNamara. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Making Sense of the Senseless" Children, Teens and Technology (broken link)
Swedish intolerance in child care
May 15, 2011. The Family Campaign Foundation of Sweden - media release (PDF): "Swedish intolerance in child care"
April 4, 2011 Surrey Now article, MP Hiebert’s income-splitting bill ‘fluff,’ says NDP opponent Keeping
April 4, 2011 Surrey Now article, MP Hiebert’s income-splitting bill ‘fluff,’ says NDP opponent Keeping (broken link)