About

My name is James (JD) Nichol. The father of two, wild, great kids.

I founded Bestchild.org as a means of gathering best practices in the area of parenting and education. I have two motives; first, I didn’t want to screw my kids up. (And I could have. Still can, but it will be tougher.) My second motive is to dispel some of the boatloads of BAD, misleading, misinformation that’s out there in the name of parenting. After researching for a while I couldn’t remain on the sideline and watch this junk pass.

The main site BestChild is a resource and collaboration between parents and child development professionals to vet ideas and best practices.

A FEW WARNINGS:

I openly steal ideas from histories greatest leaders, innovators and rebels.

I also borrow a good deal from other fields of interest, like: business, marketing, physics and the sciences. I attempt to apply what we know in principle to the arena of raising the next great generation. I also love to study the best available today on human development, psychology, education and child development.

This is not a site to pick out baby names or hear about how I balance work, personal life and family. That isn’t happening here.

A FEW PET PEEVES:

(1) Using the term “balance” to life is convenient but completely misleading
(2) Helicopter parents & Tiger Mothers – both are limiting their children, big time.
(3) Pseudo (junk) science
(4) Parenting sites that are mostly recipes, complaining and endless advertisements

I hope you think about visiting and looking at what we’re up to often. I promise to keep good information coming and put you in touch with the best experts in the field.

Thanks for your attention

JD (Jim) Nichol

PS. In all likelihood if I hadn’t decided to focus on being a better parent myself I would have been in the running for “Worst Dad of The Year” for many years. I am one of those people who really has to work on it.