Understand
Childhood & Growing Up
How children learn, feel, and become themselves, explained through everyday family life.
- 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
- 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
- Jul 24, 2026 Researchers looking at why Nordic children report the highest wellbeing in the world found the reason wasn't a… By Kiran Journals
- Jul 24, 2026 Researchers studying why modern parenting feels so much harder found the answer wasn't softer parents or harder kids… By Kiran Journals
- Jul 23, 2026 Raising a child who genuinely values their own wellbeing may have less to do with what you say to them and more to do… By Rachel Santos
- Jul 23, 2026 Studies show the children who handle the world best often weren't told they were special, they were told they were… By Kiran Journals
- Jul 22, 2026 Keeping one good friendship alive through the school years, the sleepless years, and the worried years may be one of… By Rachel Santos
- Jul 22, 2026 Research says we're watching childhood get quieter, not louder, as a generation of kids trades the scraped knees and… By Kiran Journals
- Jul 21, 2026 Research suggests children who are allowed to take risks in play may be building emotional resilience By Rachel Santos
- Jul 17, 2026 The ten minutes a parent spends alone with a cup of coffee before the house wakes up aren't indulgent By Rachel Santos
- Jun 27, 2026 The second baby doesn't get the carefully folded onesies and the color-coded hospital bag By Ainura Kalau
- Jun 22, 2026 A celebrated experiment once seemed to prove that babies, long before they can talk, are born preferring the kind over… By The Artful Parent