Topic: Elizabeth Berger

Downtown Manhattan is looking up, a new report says.. . Nearly 10 years after the Financial District's post-9/11 decline, the neighborhood is...
We all want our kids to be more grateful. "Children learn to be caring and concerned about others when they experience these things for themselves-everyday," says Elizabeth Berger, MD, child psychiatrist and author of Raising Kids With Character. "Mom is emotional core ...

Raising a Kid Who Cares

No one wants to raise a spoiled brat. Or you can show your child how to really put his growing empathy to work: Children need to develop a sense of being cared for and loved before they're able to care for ...

Why Kids Lie -- Age by Age

Daddy puts on your bras sometimes," "If a two-year-old pulls the cat's tail and says that her imaginary friend did it, the best response is to say, 'The cat has feelings, too,' " says Elizabeth Berger, M.D., a child psychiatrist and ...

Anniversary will highlight inaction

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday September 12 2008 In the article below we misquoted Elizabeth Berger of the Alliance for Downtown New York. " She said she wanted the World Trade Centre site to ...
Early Thursday morning, hundreds of relatives of those who died on September 11 2001 will gather at Ground Zero to participate in a minute's silence for each of the twin towers at the moment they fell, and to listen to the ...

How Toddlers Learn Empathy

It can be a sweet surprise to see your " And you can thank yourself for her newfound empathy, says Elizabeth Berger, M.D., author of Raising Kids With Character. If you hug her when she's down, or reassure her when she ...