Family Life
How Visits to Extended Family Affect Young Children
Extended family visits offer children valuable relationships and exposure to family history and connection. However, these visits also disrupt routine...
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Parenting
Emotional Involvement of Fathers in Childcare
Some fathers are highly emotionally engaged with their children; others seem distant or uninvolved. The difference isn't always about how much they ca...
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Parenting
Using Everyday Moments to Teach Social Skills
You don't need special lessons to teach social skills. Mealtimes, transitions, playtime, and sibling interactions are full of opportunities to practic...
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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
Sibling Relationships in Early Childhood
The most thorough body of work on early sibling relationships comes from Judy Dunn at Cambridge and a generation of researchers (Howe, Volling, Brody,...
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Family Life
The Role of Grandparents in a Child's Life
Grandparents occupy a position in children's lives that neither parents nor teachers nor friends can quite replicate. They have enough relational auth...
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Family Life
When Extended Family Support Truly Helps
There's a vast difference between help that helps and help that creates more work than it saves. When a grandmother visits and expects to be entertain...
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Family Life
How Culture Shapes Family Relationships
Every family has a culture—a set of assumptions about how people should relate to each other, what matters most, and what good parenting looks like. S...
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Daycare
Saying Goodbye to a Daycare: Emotional Considerations
Leaving a daycare your child loved — for a move, a school transition, or a change in care arrangements — is a real ending. By the time a child has bee...
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Daycare
Grandparents as Primary Childcare: Benefits and Challenges
The British grandparent who picks up from nursery, looks after the toddler one day a week, or does a Friday-night sleepover is doing a job worth, by A...
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Daycare
What Children Learn From Having Multiple Caregivers
The old worry that a child looked after by parents, grandparents, a childminder, and a key worker at nursery somehow ends up with a "watered-down" att...
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