AIDS

Article Abstract:

Children hear frightening stories about AIDS and sometimes develop misconceptions about the disease. Parents should explain how AIDS is and is not contracted and what behavior can lead to AIDS. Parents of teenagers should be frank and keep lines of communication open.

Methods, Study and teaching, Parenting, AIDS (Disease)

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All dressed up and nowhere to go

Article Abstract:

A mother is concerned that emphasis on clothes will encourage her daughter to grow into a woman who does not feel worthwhile unless she is dressed fashionably. She believes that boys are not provided the message that their identity depends on the clothing they wear.

Social aspects, Women, Clothing, Fashion, Socialization, Girls, Sex differences (Psychology) in children, Childhood sex differences (Psychology)

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The tyranny of the charts

Article Abstract:

Infant development timetables cause a mother to worry and panic if her child's development strays from what the experts say is normal. A mother becomes so frustrated by these timetables that she vows to blow up all of her child development books.

Personal narratives, Column, Child development, Bibliography, Mother and infant, Mother-infant relations

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