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Dr Maxine Thérèse, a leading authority in child development, shares research-backed insights and strategies to empower parents, therapists, educators and communities to understand and support children’s emotional and developmental growth.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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When Books Disappear What Else Do We Lose? (opens the original)
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“It’s clear as ever how desperately we need books: we need other voices, other whole perspectives. We’re communal animals, and we learn more from difference than we do from sameness.”— GLORIA STEINEM —The quiet sadness is that the world is moving away from printed books, and I wonder what this may mean for our children our attention and our shared humanityI shared Gloria Steinem’s words recently because they spoke to something I had already been feeling, a quiet
The Whole Child, Ten Years On (opens the original)
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Strong founders don’t invent a new message every year. They spend decades proving the same one. (opens the original)
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The Blueprint Starts Before Birth (opens the original)
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Before a child has language, before they have memory, before they can make sense of anything that is happening to them, they are already learning the most important lesson of their life.Am I safe here? Will someone come? Do I matter enough to be held?The answers they receive, in touch, in timing, in the quality of another person’s attention, become the blueprint. That blueprint, laid down in infancy, shapes the architecture of every relationship, every stress response, every moment of self-trust
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