Comment Re:a progressive new group (Score 1) 323
No their not. There is an extremely loose reference to Mirror Neurons, and that's all the science you are going to get. The rest is anecdote and persuasive reasoning. Frankly it's crap. But why are we surprised? Anything like the development of the most complex structure we know of in the universe (the human brain), is not going to be an easy (do X + Y == Best Outcome For All Developing Brains). People have their ideas and then move on to pushing an idealogical agenda with all confidence. Maybe their right, maybe their wrong, but to call this "parenting based on science" is just flat out nonsense.
At the end is a bit of a reference to some ways of teaching kids based on some psychotherapy concepts. It looks pretty good to me. I try everything and keep what works.