Understanding infant and child development is so important and can be so helpful in improving our parenting. We can always learn ways to enhance our relationships with our children.

There are geniuses in this field who deserve to be household names: Donald Winnicott, Daniel Stern, Selma Fraiberg, Silvan Tomkins, Anna Freud, and Melanie Klein. Much of the mission of this website is to bring the work of these great men and women into the spotlight and learn all we can from them.

Within this site I have written and gathered many interesting articles and recommended readings to help answer questions for parents just like you.
I address topics including:

• ADHD
• Child & Infant Development
• Infant Signals
• Language
• Parenting

• Physical (Corporal) Punishment
• Self-Esteem in Children
• Teens
• The Importance of Feelings
• And More

My goal is to help develop great kids and great parents. I hope to do this by discussing information about infancy and childhood -- and especially about the feelings of infants and children. Why the focus on feelings? Because feelings lead to behaviors -- our actions or inaction stem from our feelings.

I invite you to use and explore this site to gain a better understanding of your children and how to better communicate and interact with them.

Warmest wishes,
Paul C. Holinger, M.D.