Snacks Lives and Video Tape: How Are Parents and Families Doing

Los Angeles Psychotherapist Aimee Wheeler, PsyD., founder of Parenting Discovery Center, talks about how her practice helps parents understand and develop healthy child rearing choices. With video taping, she shows parents how they engage with their infants, looking at such features as over-attunement or under-attunement. More information available at www.parentingdiscoverycenter.com or see her article in the LA Times Health Section 10-31-11. TamiKremer-Sadlik, Director of Programs/Division of Social Sciences at UCLA has been examining closely parental involvement in various household activities. Her psycho-cultural anthropologic research includes cross-cultural comparisons with families in Italy, France, and Sweden. Her research is based on extensive video taping of families in their homes, with her latest book coming out in February 2012.