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Childhood & Growing Up
How children learn, feel, and become themselves, explained through everyday family life.
By Graeme Brown · Oct 19, 2026
Young adults who said their parents hovered over them reported less self-control, less sense of mastery over their…
- Oct 18, 2026 Six-year-olds who spent more of their week in less-structured activities scored better on setting and pursuing their… By Graeme Brown
- Oct 17, 2026 Young Americans whose parents volunteered while they were growing up went on to volunteer for nearly three times as… By Graeme Brown
- Oct 16, 2026 The child who quietly takes care of everyone at home can end up anxious or unusually resilient, and a review of 95… By Nato Lagidze
- Oct 15, 2026 At the University of Toledo, 36 toddlers each played individually with 4 toys in one session and 16 in another, and… By Lachlan Brown
- Sep 11, 2026 Most of what forms a child looks nothing like a decision By Rachel Santos
- Aug 21, 2026 Parenting through hard years without falling apart isn't always resilience By Rachel Santos
- Aug 20, 2026 The night your child cried and you found something close to the right words By Rachel Santos
- Aug 18, 2026 The mother who parents two children differently isn't playing favorites By Rachel Santos
- Aug 6, 2026 Parenting can make a woman feel both more herself and less herself in the same afternoon By Rachel Santos
- Aug 3, 2026 A 40-year study that followed 700 children from birth found that a third of the ones raised in the worst possible… By Kiran Journals
- Aug 3, 2026 A study that followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32 found that a single trait measurable at age three predicted… By Kiran Journals
- Aug 1, 2026 If your young child seems to have no friends, it helps to know that children usually play alongside one another for… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 1, 2026 A study of adults praising children found they gave inflated praise like incredibly beautiful twice as often to the… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 28, 2026 A study on group behaviour in children found that discipline and belonging pull in the same direction, and when they… By Kiran Journals
- Jul 25, 2026 A study on high-achieving children found their parents weren't drilling or pressuring them, and the thing they did… By Kiran Journals