Child Psychology
A New Recipe: Grace in Family Life
This is an edited version of a talk given by the famed child psychologist, Dorothy […]
Truly Beyond Deserving: Remembering Dorothy Martyn
This past weekend I learned that the pillar of grace known as Dr. Dorothy Martyn […]
Nine Year Old Psychopaths and the Limits of Compassion
If you haven’t read Jennifer Kahn’s lengthy piece about child psychopathy in The NY Times […]
Dorothy Martyn Explains What She Means By “Beyond Deservi …
Taken from the introduction to Dr. Martyn’s now classic child psychology text–a must-read for Mockingbirds […]
Overinvested Parents and Their Unhappy Kids
Holy smokes! If you haven’t read Lori Gottlieb’s article in The Atlantic, “How To Land […]
The Man In The Yellow Hat, or Grace With Difficult Children
A few particularly brilliant passages from the final chapter of Dr. Dorothy Martyn’s expert work […]
Good News for Misbehaving Children (and Their Parents, Too): Dorot …
A fixture on the Mockingbird Reading List is Beyond Deserving: Children, Parents, and Responsibility Revisited […]