Writing | Dr. Nancy L. Weaver

The Conversation · August 2025

Parenting strategies are shifting as neuroscience brings the developing brain into clearer focus

What the science of the developing brain is changing about how we think a child’s hardest moments should be handled. Read more than 105,000 times, and republished in Japanese.

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Essays and articles

2022Who we are: three strategies to create an inclusive classroomIntrepid Ed News. What instructors can do before they open a textbook: learn every name, arrive early and stay late, and build for autonomy.
2022More art is what we need mostIntrepid Ed News. Ten ways schools can use the arts as nervous system regulation rather than as an elective luxury.
2019I’m a college professor and I didn’t help my teen with her applicationsGrown and Flown. A Montessori teacher’s warning about lifting a child into a tree, and what it costs a parent to stay out of the way.
2019A mother’s prayer for todayEmpathy and guidance rather than power and direction. Written before I had the research to back it up.
2019Things I learned from Paw PawTwenty things, from cleaning the grill to voting early.
2017Fairy’s last rideOur tooth fairy was not a good tooth fairy. On imperfection, and on letting go.
2012“Why do I have to take piano lessons?”Twenty answers, ending with the only one that ever really worked.

All pieces at Intrepid Ed News

Selected peer reviewed publications

Mancini, M. A., Weaver, N. L., Mueller, K. L., & Moran, V. (2026). Beyond wound care: Implementing a hospital-based violence intervention program to meet the complex needs of youth experiencing community violence. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance.
Taylor, M. E., Weaver, N. L., Weaver, T. L., Loux, T. M., & Kutz, T. J. (2022). Evaluation of Support Over Silence for KIDS: A bystander training program to address public child maltreatment. Journal of Family Violence.
Murugan, V., Weaver, T. L., Weaver, N. L., Diltz, A., & Taylor, M. (2021). Addressing caregiver-child conflict in public: Barriers and facilitators to bystander engagement. Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development.
Weaver, N. L., Taylor, M. E., Weaver, T. L., & Kutz, T. J. (2020). Support Over Silence for KIDS: A bystander training program to address public child maltreatment. Children and Youth Services Review.
Helton, J., & Weaver, N. L. (2020). Unintentional injury in child welfare placements. Child Abuse & Neglect.
Mujal, G. N., Taylor, M. E., Gochez-Kerr, T. H., Fry, J. L., & Weaver, N. L. (2019). A systematic review of bystander interventions for the prevention of sexual violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.
Weaver, N. L., Weaver, T. L., Loux, T., Jupka, K., Lew, D., & Sallee, H. (2019). The impact of RISE Up! in promoting positive parenting and safety behaviors of parents with young children. Children and Youth Services Review.
Jaques, M. L., Weaver, T. L., Weaver, N. L., & Willoughby, L. (2018). The association between pediatric injury risks and parenting behaviors. Child: Care, Health & Development.
Weaver, N. L., Weaver, T. L., Nicks, S., Jupka, K., Sallee, H., Jacobsen, H., Henley, W., & Jaques, M. (2016). Developing tailored positive parenting strategies for a population-based communication program. Child: Care, Health and Development.

From the Support Over Silence blog

Shorter pieces, written as things come up in the field.

All posts at supportoversilence.com