Introduction: Where Do You Draw The Line?
- Chaos
and Clair-ification
- Working
Moms Versus Moms that Work
- Ten
Years Sped Slowly By
- Struggling Notions
Chapter 1. Through the Eyes
of a Child – A Paradigm Shift
- Working
Moms’ Children
- Silent
Sorrow
- Through
The Eyes Of A Child
Chapter 2. They’re Not Like Us – Cognitive Expectations and
Age Appropriate Practices
- A
Glance Ahead
- A
Glimpse Back
- Kindergarten
Didn’t Go As Planned
- Why
Rabbits Sometimes Eat Spilled Pizza
- Fixing
This Mistakes
- Was
Piaget Right?
Chapter 3. A
B Seeing It All – A Cognitive Developmental Insight into the Reading
Process
- Idiot
Words
- The
Great Debate
- If
I Ran The Show…
- A
Reading Proposition
- Picture
This!
Chapter 4. What’s Wrong With Reading
– The Cognitive Complexities of the Reading Process
- The
Inconsistency Detection Paradigm (or really smart fish)
- Circumventing
Grice
- Doubting
Thomases
- Too
Nitpicky?
- Board
With Reading
Chapter 5. Constructing Knowledge
- Ideal Learning Environments and How Children Think and Learn
- Neither Gifted Nor Talented
- The
Gift
- Constructing
Cognitions
- Igneous
Fusion
- Look
What We Left Behind…
- Crying
Out For Change
- Play At Reading
Chapter 6. If I’ve Told You Once… - The Development of Memory in Children
- Take
The Test
- A
Penny For Your Thoughts
- How
Much Is Normal?
- The
Architecture of the Mind
- Organize
Your Thoughts
- Maximizing
Memory
Chapter 7. Morally Speaking – Can Morals Be Taught? The Development of Morality in Children
- Jump Rope For Pizza
- Piaget
on Morals
- Kohlberg
on Morals
- Scouting
Then And Scouting Now
- Addendum To The Jump Rope For Pizza
Chapter 8. Pandora’s Toybox- The Cognitive, Developmental Implications
for Play
- The
Great Toy Race
- Gone
Are the Lemonade Stands
- After
School Madness and Minivan Mums
- The
Common Sense Effect
- Parten
on Play
- Roughhousing
Chapter 9. X
Pods and I Boxes - The Implications of Technology on Child Development
- $10
Billion and Counting
- The
Pixels in our Living Room
- Inherent
Dangers
- Technological
Teats and Tongues
- The
New Bully on the Block
- The 800 Pound Gorilla in the Room
Chapter 10. Computing Children:
Selling Our Children Down the Information Superhighway – The Role of Computers in Education
- Computing
Infants
- Computing
Toddlers
- Educational
or Bust
- But
What If…
- Computing
School Age Children
- The
Hype
- Crawling
to the Cusp of Greatness
- Did
We Jump in Feet First?
- Computing Adolescents
Chapter 11. Where Research Meets Reality: Parenting – The Role of
the Parent
- Parenting
Styles
- Discipline
- Facing My Own Parenting Reality
- The Long and Bumpy Authoritative Road
Chapter 12. The Ultimate Payoff:
Adolescence – Moral, Social, Cognitive and Emotional Development in Adolescence or Nature’s Cruelest Trick…
Conclusion: Thinking Outside the Sandbox
Post Script: Why Did My Mother Have to be a Cognitive Developmental Psychologist?
