Parenting
How Children Learn From Watching Parents Handle Stress
The way you respond to a flat tire, a difficult email, a 2pm meltdown — your child is logging all of it. By 4 or 5, most kids have a working template...
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Parenting
Modeling the Behavior You Want to See
"Do as I say, not as I do" was, on inspection, never a working parenting strategy. The neuroscience is clear: children's brains run on imitation almos...
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Parenting
Parents' Emotional Maturity and Its Impact on the Child
Most parenting advice focuses on techniques: time-outs, rewards, specific phrases to use, behavior strategies. Yet research consistently shows that pa...
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Parenting
How to Apologise to a Child (and What Counts as a Real Apology)
A generation of British parents was taught — sometimes explicitly, often by absence — that parents do not apologise to children. The argument was that...
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Family Life
Family Values in Everyday Life
Most parents, if asked what they want to teach their children, can produce a tidy list: kindness, honesty, hard work, generosity, curiosity, respect....
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Family Life
Healthy Conflict Resolution Modeled for Children
Research by E. Mark Cummings and Patrick Davies, who have spent decades studying how marital conflict affects children, makes an important and somewha...
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Family Life
How to Discuss Disagreements in Front of Children
Most parents believe they should never argue in front of their children. The research says something more nuanced: it's not the arguing that harms chi...
5 min read
Emotions
How Parental Emotional Stability Influences Child Behavior
You've probably seen this firsthand. On the days you're stretched thin, your three-year-old falls apart over the wrong colored cup. On a calmer Saturd...
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