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Parenting

A Scientific Perspective on Parenting

A friend forwards you a study showing screen time before age 2 lowers vocabulary scores. You're already feeling guilty about the 20 minutes of CoComel...

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Parenting

The Science of Positive Discipline

"Positive discipline" sounds like a marketing phrase, but it rests on roughly forty years of developmental neuroscience. The short version: young chil...

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Parenting

Physical Punishment: What the Research Actually Shows

Physical punishment is one of the most heavily studied parenting practices in the world. The findings have been pointing the same direction for decade...

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Parenting

Books and Research on Parenting: Key Concepts

A handful of underlying ideas show up in nearly every parenting book worth reading. Authors have rebranded them, repackaged them, and added their own...

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Daycare

What Research Says About Daycare and Child Development

Few questions weigh on new parents like this one: will daycare hurt my child? The good news is that this is one of the most studied areas in child dev...

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