Teacher Tom

Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about re...

I had an unopened travel package of tissues that had been in my backpack for I don't know how long. It had gone with me ...

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...