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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
- Jul 24, 2026 Research on middle-class household finances found two possessions people call assets often function as liabilities By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 24, 2026 Research measuring real stress hormones in popularity hierarchies found being at the top carries a genuine… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 A study of 172 college students found that despite both men and women believing women fall in love and say "I love you"… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Research tracing discipline across generations found the punishment once favored by Boomer-era parents has both… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Research on self-discipline found it consistently outperforms other traits at predicting real outcomes By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 In the mid-1950s, Kutol Products in Cincinnati was quietly phasing out its failing wallpaper cleaner when a… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Research using accelerometer data found how walking is broken up matters more than how much of it happens By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Research on achievement-focused parenting found real, specific costs to children By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Six experiments found people consistently and significantly overestimate how devastated they'll feel after a closed… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 A randomized trial of couples therapy found that even severely and chronically distressed married couples, not just… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Three experiments found people who wrote thank-you letters to real recipients significantly underestimated how positive… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 Research on genuine listening found it does more than make people feel heard By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 A study of over 1,700 American adults found Boomers and Millennials genuinely dislike each other more than they dislike… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 23, 2026 People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent decades being the one everyone called… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 22, 2026 Psychology says people who still write to-do lists by hand instead of their phone usually display these 9 distinct… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 22, 2026 Research on expectations found they quietly shape how relationships feel By The Artful Parent Editorial Team