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It is my life’s calling to communicate the magnificence of children, and to share evidence-based understanding about their development. You’ll find that here, with strategies for families to make life better!

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Digital Colonisation and Infant Mental Health

  • February 2, 2026
  • Perspectives
Human (Māori) settlement in my country (Aotearoa | New Zealand; ANZ) around 800 years ago resulted in some burning of fo...
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“I Haven’t Had Anyone Talk to Me About Phone Use, At All”: Primiparous Mothers’ Conversations About Smartphone Use While Caregiving

  • October 17, 2025
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
AbstractOur smartphone habits have implications for our mental health, including new mothers’experience of loneliness. F...
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Caregiver smartphone use can affect a baby’s development. New parents should get more guidance

  • December 9, 2025
  • The Conversation
We already know excessive smartphone use affects people’s mental health and their relationships. But when...
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There’s nothing Terrible about Twos: In Defence of Toddlers

  • January 1, 2008
  • Newsletter of the Brainwave Trust
One of the many gifts from the Brainwave presentation is the way that information about the rapidly developing brain of ...
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Brains and Behaviour – harnessing the power of the Parietal Lobe

  • October 1, 2008
  • Newsletter of the Brainwave Trust
It is my great privilege to share the messages of the Brainwave Trust with a variety of people across many settings – of...
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A new learning story:  Capability and vulnerability

  • January 1, 2004
  • New Zealand Journal of Infant and Toddler Education
My friend and colleague Jean Rockel suggested I write a newborn story – “to remind us what it’s all about”.  I’m ge...
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Relationship-Shaping:

  • January 1, 2005
  • New Zealand Journal of Infant and Toddler Education
Teacher Consistency and Implications for Brain Development By Miriam McCaleb & Nathan Mikaere-Wallis Stimulated by a...
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Early relationships really matter

  • May 1, 2009
  • "Yes Vote" campaign
I’m an adult who has spent years learning about child development and … well, OK, obsessing a little about research. Abo...
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Obituary for Magda Gerber

  • January 1, 2007
  • Dimensions of Early Childhood, Journal of SECA, USA
Magda Gerber has died.  There is such sadness in that statement, but such peace in the knowledge that she died at h...
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Unmapped Territory

  • March 1, 2012
  • Tots to Teens magazine
Having compassion and empathy for your new baby’s introduction to and exploration of their world is a great starting poi...
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Beware of the Vampires

  • December 1, 2012
  • Tots to Teens magazine
About the time my belly swelled to that pleasing stage where it’s clearly “Baby Bump!” and not “Too Much Dessert!”, my w...
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Love, Limits, and Limitless Love

  • June 1, 2013
  • OHbaby!
It all started in my local library.  It’s open plan, so sound travels.  If you’re browsing non fiction you can...
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