Why a Full Year of Paid Parental Leave Is Critical to School Success
The first year of life is critical for lifelong learning capacity — and a parent at home can make all the difference.
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up for Not Being the Perfect Parent
Many parents think they should be providing kids with huge quantities of child-focused time. Here are 3 things that kids really need from parents.
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When Children Aren’t Like Their Parents
Are kids like their parents? I wasn’t. I used to feel like a foreigner in my family. And then I had my son and started to understand the power of nature versus nurture.
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The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Overindulgence
Does it really matter if parents overindulge their children? Yes, according to research suggesting that childhood overindulgence is linked to depression, anxiety, and problematic alcohol use in young adults.
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Moderating Kids’ Time Online Now That Screens Are Here to Stay
Are you struggling to get your child off screens? Missing their smiling faces? This post will help you get more control of the screen time in your home.
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What Is a Child?
We imagine that children do not belong to the same species as adults — that they have needs and desires different from ours. But a child’s psychology is rather like our own.
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Adolescence and Pushing Parents for Freedom to Grow
The management of freedom can be frustrating when it is denied—when the teenager can’t do what she or he wants, and when parents can’t get what they want.
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How to Make Family Outings More Fun
It’s tough to build happy family memories when confronted with eye rolls and loud sighs of “I’m bored!” Here are three tips for making outings better for the whole family.
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To Copy or Not to Copy
Children’s decisions of whether or not to copy a model’s seemingly ridiculous actions are far from clear-cut.
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How a Father’s Love Helps Kids Thrive in Life
For many fathers, the coronavirus pandemic tightly wove work with family life. Because remote work and remote school were a fact of life for a lot of families, some fathers have spent much more time with their children this past […]