Teacher Tom

Imagine two young women, identical in every way, right down to their aspirations of becoming great actors. The first women g...

"I didn't do it!" I'd seen the boy push his friend, knocking him to the ground. He was lying there still, ...

During a recent Q&A webinar with Parent Map , I was asked by host Laura Kastner to define play. Specifically, she wanted...

"Let's pretend we're dinosaurs." Any sentence that begins with "Let's . . ." and especially ...

One of the most universal play activities across any number of species is "play fighting," or as we sometimes call...

A baby waved at me over its mother's shoulder. I'd done nothing to get its attention, yet, from across the crowded, ...

"The grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and, for children, it's tiresome always giving them explana...