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play situations in improving
short-term
visual recognition
working
Mental age
Mental-health professional, finding
Mental life of fetus
Mercury in fish
Mesoderm
Message boards
Meta-emotion
Metaphors
wife’s kitchen as
Micro-expressions
Milgram, Stanley
Mind in the Making
(Galinsky)
Mirror neurons
Miscarriage
Mischel, Walter
Mistakes, making
Molecular processes, link between visible behaviors and
Mom’s voice, recognition of
Money, happiness and
Moral awareness
in baby at birth
instilling in children
internalization as measure of
as universal
Moral choices, making
Moral happiness
Moral reasoning, development of
Moral Sense Test
Morning sickness
gifted children and
persistence of, in pregnancy
Moro Reflex
Morula
Mothers
clinical depression in
fitness of, in pregnancy
sleep loss in new
Movement-oriented game consoles
Mozart Effect
Multiple intelligences
Murder
Music, playing to fetus
Musical instrument, happiness and
Musical training
Music exposure, benefits of long-term
Myst (computer-based video game)
Myths on parenting
N
Nature, role of, in child rearing
Nature versus nurture
Negative reinforcement
Neglectful parents
Nerves, empathy in calming
Networking, skill in
Neural communication
Neural differentiation
Neural tube
birth defects and
development of
Neurobiology behind empathy
Neurogenesis
Neurons
in brain development
mirror
need for omega-3s
Neuroscience, brain development and
Nicotine, brain development and
Nisbett, Richard
Nonverbal communication
decoding
perfecting skills in
Nonverbal cues, decoding
Nonverbal experts, innovators as
Nuclear families
Nurture versus nature
Nutritional needs during pregnancy
O
Obesity, problem of childhood
Observational learning
Obviousness
Odorants
Olfactory labeling
Omega-3 fatty acids
in breast milk
need for
On Monsters and Marvels
(Paré)
Open-ended learning
Open-ended play
Opposite day
Orphanages, effect of life in Romanian
Othello’s Error
Outward-bound parents
Overachieving parents
Overstimulation, brain development and
Oxytocin
release of, as stress response
in stimulating lactation
P
Paleo diet
Paltrow, Bruce
Paltrow, Gwyneth
Paré, Ambroise
Parental affection, withdrawal of
Parental attention, crying and
Parentese
characteristics of
Parenting
attentive
authoritarian
authoritative
children’s opinions of styles of
clinical depression and
demanding but warm style of
demandingness in
difficulties in researching
difficulties of
inductive
indulgent
myths on
neglectful
reasons for needing
responsiveness in
skills needed in
social isolation and
styles of
videotaping your
Parents
baby’s social contract with
characteristics of perfect
depression in new
differences in
interactivity in
need for clear rules with consequences
need for facts
overachieving
superstar
Parietal-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT)
Paseka, Marglyn
Patience, losing
Peers, influence on children
PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support) groups
Perceptual asymmetry
Permissive parents
Personality, temperament and
Physiological synchrony
Piaget, Jean
Pica
Picasso
Pinker, Steven
Play
creativity in
imaginative
in improving memory
impulse control in
make-believe
mature dramatic
open-ended
self-regulation of
social-buffering benefits of
Play plans
making
Playrooms, creating
Podcasts
Point of view, speculating
Porn for Women
(picture book)
Post-it notes, comparing emotions to
Postpartum depression
Poverty
happiness and
influence on IQ
Praise, offering for following rules
Praising of effort
Prediction, power of
Pregaphone
Pregnancy
brain development in
cravings in
desire for lack of stimulation in
diet in
exercise in
fitness of mother in
food preferences during
husbands treatment of wives during
marital quality in
neurogenesis in
nutritional needs during
persistence of morning sickness in
stress in
synaptogenesis in
weight gain in
Premack, David
Prenatal development, stress and
Prenatal University, creation of
Presbyterian behavior
Pressure in extinguishing curiosity
Primordial otocysts
Principle, acting on
Problem-solving skills in children
Prodigy parents
Prosopagnosia
Psychiatric disorders, genetics of
Psychology, developmental
Punishment.
See also
Discipline
by application
avoiding
effective
emotional safety and
limitations of
need for consistent
need for firm
by removing rewards
swiftness of
Pushing during labor, fitness of mother in
Q
Quickening
R
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting
(Gottman)
Rape
Rationale, explaining behind rules
Readability
Reading
in buying digital time
to fetus
importance of
Reason, emotions versus
Reception-before-perception pattern of sensory development
Reciprocal withdrawal
Reciprocating relationship
Reconciling in front of children
Reflex, Moro
Regulation
emotional
of happiness
play and self-
Reinforcement, negative
Relationships
empathy and
importance of
reciprocating
romantic
sibling
between siblings
social
evolutionary roots of
maintaining after birth of baby
“tend and befriend
Rembrandt
Removal, punishment by
Research
flaws in current
ideal
Resilience
Responsiveness
Restrictive parents
Retinal nerves
Rewards
need for clear, consistent
punishment by removing
Right hemisphere
Risk, sex-based differences in
Risk-taking, creativity and
Robocop
(movie)
Romanian orphanages
Romantic relationships, happiness in
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rote-drilled learning atmospheres
Rules
“CAP
explaining rationale behind
need for clear, consistent
S
Sadness
genetics and
Safety
baby’s desire for
bonding in providing
brain’s desire for
St. John’s wort
Schizophrenia, risk for
School, influence on children
Science, debunking myths
Secondhand exposure to television
Self-control, in intelligence
Self-corrected ideas, learning about environment through
Self-interest
Self-perceived abilities, study of, in twins
Self-regulation, play and
Seligman, Marty
Selye, Hans
Senses, strategic development of, in fetus
Sensitivities, in babies
Sensory development, reception-before-perception pattern of
Sensory stimulation
Sex
maintenance
scheduling regularly
spontaneous
Sex-based differences in risk-taking
Shaping
Short-term memory, link between COMT (catechol-O-methyl transferse) and
Sibling rivalry
Siblings, relationship between
Sight development in fetus
Sign language, learning, in boosting cognition
The Silver Chair
(Lewis)
Single-parent household
Situational awareness
Skinner, B. F.
Sleep-deprived people, irritability of
Sleep loss, as source of marital conflict
Smell development in fetus
Social beings, acknowledgment of
Social boundaries, ignoring
Social-buffering benefits of play
Social competency
emotional regulation and
empathy and
in making friends
Social contract between baby and parents
Social cooperation
Social groups, belonging to multiple
Social isolation
effects of
marital conflict and
Socialization, link between happiness and
Social relationships, evolutionary roots of
Social responsiveness tests
Social violence, proscriptions against
Spanking
Spearman, Charles
Speculating on point of view
Speech, emotional aspects of
Spina bifida
Spiritual purity
Spontaneous abortion
Spontaneous sex
Sports teams, impromptu drafting of backyard
Spouse
checking in with
developing empathy reflex with
Standard IQ tests
Stanford-Binet IQ test
Stay-at-home mothers
earnings of
hours worked by
Stern, William
Sticking points, addressing, in marriage
Stimulation, fetus desire for lack of
Stone, Elizabeth
Strait, Dana
Straus, Murray
Strengthening exercises
Stress
babies response to
brain development and
continual anger or disappointment as toxic
exercise and
linking with clinical depression
in pregnancy
reducing
toxic forms of
Stress hormones, bone mineralization and
Stress resistance, 5-HTT in
Suicide
Superstar parents
Survival, as priority of brain
Swimming
Synapses
Synaptogenesis
Synchrony
interaction
physiological
T
Tabula rasa
Tagore
Talaris Institute
Talking
to baby
effect of, on IQ
Taste development in fetus
Taylor, Catherine
Teachable moment, crisis as a
Team work
in child rearing
in interpreting faces
social coordination and
Television
bullying and
impact on brain development
no, for kids under two years
secondhand exposure to
Temperament
genetics and
happiness and
high-reactive
low-reactive
personality and
Temperature, fetus sensitivity to
Temper tantrums
responding to
“Tend and befriend relationships
Tendencies
Terman, Lewis
Terrible twos
Testosterone
Text messaging
Theory of Mind
Thinking
abstract
effect of extreme expectations on higher-level
hard
Thomas, Lewis
Thoughtfulness
Timeout
Toddler
emotional reaction to
vocabulary of
Tools of the Mind program
learning conferences in

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