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Jul 17 The ten minutes a parent spends alone with a cup of coffee before the house wakes up aren't indulgent Rachel Santos
Jul 17 The parent who tells a child "you're so smart" after every good grade usually believes they're building confidence The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 17 The parent who still calls to check on a grown child’s grades, keeps track of who their friends are, and would phone a… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 16 Two long-running studies on how small, everyday patterns shape a life found matching evidence The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 16 Two separate studies on unequal household labor support what people online call weaponized incompetence The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 16 Two very different bodies of research on trusting your gut arrived at a similar conclusion The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 16 A review of research on children's risky play, climbing high, playing near speed, exploring alone, argues that this… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 15 In the early 1990s, J.K. Rowling was a single mother on welfare writing in cafés. Her Harry Potter manuscript was… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 15 A study that followed 184 adolescents from age 13 to 23 found that the 'cool' kids who prioritized impressing their… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 15 The older parent who grips every railing usually isn't just reading a frail body The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 15 In 2018, researchers at NYU and UC Irvine redid Walter Mischel's famous "marshmallow test" with 918… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 14 The parent who goes quiet at the crowded family table and seems to be drifting off or losing the thread usually isn't… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 14 A study of 168 dual-earner couples found that workaholism in one partner reliably predicted more conflict between work… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 14 A study on trait self-control found that people who seem naturally calm under pressure are not actually resisting… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 14 Researchers studying parenting and grown children's mental health have consistently found it isn't how much a parent… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 14 Psychology says the parent who keeps every drawing, every report card, and every handprint isn’t sentimental The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 13 A brain-imaging study found that simply putting a strong emotion into words, saying "I'm angry" rather than staying… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 13 We tend to treat "soft parenting" as a single approach, but decades of parenting research distinguish two things that… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 13 In a ten-week experiment, 53 married couples were randomly assigned to spend ninety minutes a week doing something new… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Jul 11 People who quietly let their birthday pass without fanfare often grew up in homes where their needs came second, and… Daniel Moran