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Parenting

Parent Rituals as a Source of Stability

A toddler who watches their mother make tea the same way every morning before anyone else is awake is absorbing more than the smell of bergamot. They...

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Parenting

Rituals That Belong to You: Why Parents Need Them Too

Children's rituals get a lot of airtime — bedtime routines, morning routines, transition rituals — because pediatricians have decades of evidence that...

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Family Life

Creating Family Traditions With Young Children

The traditions a child remembers from childhood are almost never the expensive ones. Ask any adult what they remember from their first five or six yea...

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Family Life

Holidays as Part of Family Culture

Childhood holiday memories are extraordinary for their specificity. Adults rarely remember "Christmas was nice" in the abstract—they remember the part...

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Emotions

The Role of Repetitive Rituals in Reducing Child Anxiety

Your three-year-old wants the bedtime story read in the same sing-song voice, with the same blanket tucked the same way. The morning goodbye at presch...

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Daycare

The Role of Home Rituals After Daycare

Rituals have power. A repeated sequence of actions that marks a transition—from daycare to home—helps a child's developing brain and nervous system un...

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