Lisa Guernsey at Early Ed Watch cites a new study that says preschoolers might not be as self-centered as we’d thought: … researchers like Ross A. Thompson, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, have been discovering that empathy and perspective-taking are not just developmental milestones that we have to wait [...]
Joe Carter, the web editor at First Things, has an interesting take on sex education. His argument is that neither the Planned Parenthood approach–recently in the news for teaching middle-schoolers in Iowa how to perform female exams–nor the just-say-no crowd is actually educating kids: Both types of programs are equally flawed and flawed in the [...]
Adam Brodsky at the New York Post reminds us why we celebrate the Boy Scouts. It’s an organization that teaches boys qualities that are not only valuable in themselves but are essential for American citizens: …self-reliance, leadership, a sense of duty toward others — that is, a personal obligation to act with integrity and treat [...]
Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at Yale, had a fascinating piece in the NYT magazine earlier this month about babies. In “The Moral Life of Babies,” he argues that babies have “at least a rudimentary moral sense.” At eight and ten months old, babies already root for the good guys and frown at — or [...]