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How Does a Child Become a Person? (opens the original)
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For centuries, we’ve told ourselves stories about who a child is when they arrive in the world.Locke thought a child’s mind began as a blank slate, with nothing written on it, just empty, waiting to be filled in by experience. Freud thought something closer to the opposite. He proposed a mind is already driven by urges and instincts a child couldn’t yet understand, let alone control. Winnicott went further still. He argued there is no such thing as a baby, only a baby and someone, because at the
What Can Research Really Tell Us About Daycare? (opens the original)
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This is an updated version of an essay I originally published in 2025, one of my highest-read pieces, with the research and some of my thinking revisited. Like all my work, it is free to read.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="642.88888
The Cost of Knowing Your Child (opens the original)
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I can often tell what kind of afternoon we’re going to have before lunch is over. I’ve come to recognise this as an uncanny ability bestowed sometimes unknowingly to parents.The slightly glazed look when he’s tired. The particular giddiness that means we’re running out of time. The way he starts moving between activities without really settling into any of them. I’ve seen these things enough times that my brain has become quite good at what comes next.It’s one of the strange things about knowing
Divorce Is an Event. Childhood Is an Environment. (opens the original)
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Welcome to Research Spotlight. From time to time, I come across a study that lingers. One that subtly shapes how I think clinically or personally. In this series, I’ll take one paper at a time, unpack what the authors actually did, outline what they found, and reflect on what we can - and cannot - take from it.I’ve been asked, on several occasions, what divorce means for children.I like to take my time answering, because every family’s situation is different. I also know that often, when we turn
The Girl Who Is Too Organised to Have ADHD (opens the original)
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She was thirteen when her parents brought her to our clinic.They described her as exceptionally organised. Her school bag was packed every night, without any fuss. There was a list on her bedroom wall of everything she needed for school, and another for getting ready in the morning. Her homework was meticulously arranged. Reminders covered her walls - things to remember, things to do, things not to forget.She was conscientious, bright, and, her parents said, very aware of what she needed to do.W
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