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The Artful Age Editorial Team
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- Writing since 2021
The Artful Age Editorial Team produces content for parents, caregivers, and educators who want to bring more creativity into their kids' lives. We cover process art, craft tutorials, book lists, and editorial pieces on creative family life. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, including testing process art ideas with real kids before recommending them. The Artful Age takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
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- Aug 1, 2026 In a 2006 study, 18-month-old toddlers helped a stranger who needed assistance across most of ten tasks without being… + Parent Resources
- Aug 1, 2026 A study of adults praising children found they gave inflated praise like incredibly beautiful twice as often to the… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 31, 2026 When a child pours vinegar onto a mound of baking soda in a paper-mache volcano, the acid and base swap partners in… + Art Activities
- Jul 31, 2026 Falling in love with your life is usually pitched as a matter of big changes, but the research on savoring points… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 31, 2026 In a 1998 study, fifth graders praised for being smart chose easier tasks and lied about their scores after failing… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 31, 2026 There is no single secret that makes aging automatically wiser, but a well-studied theory from Stanford explains why… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 31, 2026 In 2010, a study of 42 adults claimed a two-minute ‘power pose’ raised testosterone and lowered stress hormones, but a… + Parent Resources
- Jul 31, 2026 Researchers who tracked toddlers during free play found they averaged 2,368 steps and 17 falls an hour, moving in short… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 30, 2026 A review of 70 studies covering 3.4 million people compared being alone with feeling alone, expecting one to matter far… + The Journal
- Jul 30, 2026 Children raised in homes where books are read aloud daily hear roughly 1.4 million more words by kindergarten than… + Creative Family Life
- Jul 30, 2026 When a child mixes white school glue with liquid starch, the long polyvinyl acetate chains in the glue tangle around… + Sensory Play
- Jul 30, 2026 The psychology of parents who keep giving grown children advice they never asked for + The Journal