It’s what we all want to know, isn’t It? The secret to raising successful children. With so many “how to” books out there, where do we start? This NYT article is straightforward and brutally honest. Read it if you dare…

Did you know Steve Jobs and Evan Williams (founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium) are low tech parents? Find out why…

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. (Filmed at TEDxRainier in 2010.)

Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have proven that indeed, life allows for the “revenge of the nerds”.  Now there’s social science research that supports this! Researchers at the University of Virginia followed 184 students over a ten year period and found that 13-year-olds who engaged in ‘pseudomature behaviors’ in search of “coolness” and popularity were more likely to have problems with drugs and alcohol by their early 20s. For a succinct summary, please read this article from Medical Daily on the findings published in June’s Child Development Journal.