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Should Parents Set Consequences for Misbehavior in Children?

Should Parents Set Consequences for Misbehavior in Children?
20.01.2025 10

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Can There Be Growth After Loss for a Child?

Can There Be Growth After Loss for a Child?
13.01.2025 20

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Can Babies Remember Pain?

Can Babies Remember Pain?

The history of the treatment of pain in infants.

06.01.2025 4

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Does Doing Chores Really Help Your Child to Be Successful?

Chores are important for building children's self-confidence and self-efficacy.

31.12.2024 4

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It's Time to Talk About Porn With Our Kids

Don't let porn be your child's first birds and bees experience.

27.12.2024 3

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Try Doing Less Not More

Children can feel either tired or wired or both at this time of year.

18.12.2024 5

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How We Can Help Children Feel Competent

Parents can allow children to build skills without helping before they need it.

06.12.2024 2

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Thanksgiving Table Discussions: What the Kids May Hear

How to handle contentious dinner conversations when kids are present.

26.11.2024 3

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Are Students Safer at School With or Without Their Phones?

Safety is a common argument against banning phones at school. But is it a valid one?

20.11.2024 3

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Should Schools Ban Cell Phone Use During Class Time?

What does the research say about phones in the classroom?

18.11.2024 3

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How Do We Help Our Children Post-Election?

People are experiencing many different emotions post-election.

11.11.2024 4

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Helping Children Understand Different Holidays

If you celebrate Diwali, enjoy! If you don't, help your kids understand what it's about.

04.11.2024 1

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Daycare Yes or No: An Opinion Piece

Personal Perspective: Daycare is a hard decision; parents need to know the research.

28.10.2024 2

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What Is High-Quality Day Care, Anyway?

What to look for when you choose a day care.

25.10.2024 1

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How to Talk With Your Kids About the Upcoming Election

Age-appropriate election talk is all about winning, losing, and sportsmanship.

16.10.2024 3

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The Transition to Fatherhood

Men can feel a multitude of feelings as they prepare to become fathers.

08.10.2024 2

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How Children Respond to the Illness of a Parent

Kids whose parents are sick may feel anger, annoyance, and fear.

07.10.2024 2

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Does Your Child Procrastinate?

Or, for that matter, do YOU procrastinate?

01.10.2024 3

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Do Your Kids Know How to Learn?

The cognitive science behind learning.

24.09.2024 3

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How to Help a Grieving Child

There's no one way to help a grieving child.

23.09.2024 3

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The Loss of a Grandparent

Losing a grandparent is a normal part of life, but it's hard.

20.09.2024 3

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Conflict Between Siblings and How to Play It Out

Starting soon after birth, older siblings often feel angry with their new sibling.

19.09.2024 3

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Sexting and Your Kids

How to talk to tweens and teens about the dangers of sexting.

14.09.2024 2

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The Importance of Failure for Kids

Personal Perspective: We need to help our children—by not helping them so much.

06.09.2024 3

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Talking to Kids About Online Porn

Online porn is a hard topic for parents.

04.09.2024 3

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Sharenting: Should You Share Photos and Information About Your Kids Online?

Parents should think carefully before posting about their children online.

29.08.2024 3

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Back to School Means Specific Screen-Time Limits

Specific screen-time guidelines for parents and kids at each age.

27.08.2024 3

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The Loneliness of Parenting

5 ways to find community while parenting.

23.08.2024 2

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Is It Even Possible to Be a "Perfect Mom"?

Parents, especially moms, feel pressure to be "perfect." Here's why they shouldn't.

19.08.2024 1

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Blending Families After the Death of a Parent

Introducing a potential stepparent requires a lot of sensitivity.

16.08.2024 2

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3 Ways to Help Your Child Make Choices You Want Them to Make

The gentle art of parents using choice architecture with children.

13.08.2024 1

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How Grief and Mourning Affect Children

For children, every loss is unique, and every loss is experienced uniquely.

09.08.2024 2

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A Deeper Dive Into Children’s Food Preferences

How to help children make better food choices by starting when they are babies.

07.08.2024 5

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Does Your Child Say "No" to Almost Everything You Serve at Dinner?

How we got here and what to do about it.

07.08.2024 5

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Transition to Motherhood: Postpartum Anxiety and Depression

The postpartum period is a vulnerable time for a new mother.

31.07.2024 2

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Mom Brain: Myth or Real?

It is a myth that women's cognitive capacities diminish before and after childbirth.

31.07.2024 10

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Where Is the Real Information on Pregnancy and Childbirth?

Here's what you need to know for the transition to motherhood.

27.07.2024 3

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The Transition to Motherhood

Pregnancy and Changing Identity

22.07.2024 2

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A Deeper Dive Into the Transition to Motherhood

Finally telling the truth about motherhood and matrescence.

21.07.2024 2

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Matrescence and the Challenge of Motherhood

Do you feel ambivalent about being a mother?

17.07.2024 1

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Matrescence: The Challenges of Becoming a Mother

Isolation and identity shift in motherhood.

15.07.2024 2

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The Transition to Motherhood

Becoming a mother is hard, and very few people talk about that.

11.07.2024 1

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