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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 18, 2026 Two separate studies on getting through exhaustion found complementary answers By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 A study that gave more than 3,400 people simple problems with an obvious but wrong intuitive answer found that the… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 A national study tracking more than 2,200 heterosexual couples over six years found women initiated 69 percent of… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two long-running studies on how small, everyday patterns shape a life found matching evidence By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two separate studies on unequal household labor support what people online call weaponized incompetence By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two very different bodies of research on trusting your gut arrived at a similar conclusion By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 A review of research on children's risky play, climbing high, playing near speed, exploring alone, argues that this… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two separate bodies of research on broken promises found a matching pattern By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two separate studies on color found a consistent pattern By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 A study combining a controlled experiment with three weeks of real-time text-message check-ins found that passively… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 An economics study that compared cognitive test scores across countries with very different retirement ages found that… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two large studies using objective wearable light sensors, one covering over 400,000 people and the other nearly 87,000… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that had people keep a weekly journal for nine weeks found the ones randomly assigned to simply write down what… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A survey of more than 7,000 adults found women rated a partner's age, education, income, and emotional trust… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A meta-analysis pooling 65 separate studies on unsecured personal debt found people carrying it had roughly triple the… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that followed 184 adolescents from age 13 to 23 found that the 'cool' kids who prioritized impressing their… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team