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Jun 12 People who grew up with parents who sacrificed everything to provide for them often carry a specific confusion into… The Artful Parent Editorial Team
Jun 11 People who spent summer days outside until dinner with no phone, no check-ins, and no adult knowing exactly where they… The Artful Parent Editorial Team
Jun 11 The famous marshmallow test seemed to prove that a child who waited for a treat would thrive for life, but a 2018… Mal James
Jun 11 There's a specific kind of loneliness that can settle in when your children are fine Ainura Kalau
Jun 10 Since 1990, American IQ scores have kept rising, but one researcher's analysis of 272,000 creativity tests found the… Mal James
Jun 10 When adult children say they're fine but clearly aren't, some parents learn the hardest version of love Ainura Kalau
Jun 10 When a grown child pulls back from a parent, it usually isn't about anger. It's about exhaustion Daniel Moran
Jun 10 Almost every adult child carries one careless sentence their parent said at the dinner table forty years ago, still… Daniel Moran
Jun 10 People who grew up without seatbelt laws, bicycle helmets, or parental supervision past the front door often describe… Ainura Kalau
Jun 10 Many parents in their 70s and their adult children in their 40s and 50s discover, often in the parent's final decade… The Artful Parent Editorial Team
Jun 9 I was the easy child who never caused trouble Ainura Kalau
Jun 9 We tend to imagine non-parents as the freer, happier ones and parents as the more fulfilled ones, but data from 26,000… Mal James
Jun 9 Play might seem like the opposite of something productive, but research suggests it helps shape the developing brain The Artful Parent Editorial Team
Jun 9 Adults who grew up in the 1960s and 70s carry a particular ease with boredom, discomfort, and their own company that… Daniel Moran
Jun 9 There's a certain type of person who reaches sixty and realizes their entire social life was borrowed from their job… Daniel Moran
Jun 8 I asked 50 only-children what they wish people understood, and the answer wasn't loneliness Ainura Kalau
Jun 7 I interviewed 40 people who cut off a parent, and almost none of them sounded angry Ainura Kalau
Jun 7 I asked 45 adult children what they actually remember about childhood, and it was almost never the vacations Ainura Kalau
Jun 7 The last generation raised without constant supervision learned to solve their own boredom, settle their own arguments… Ainura Kalau
Jun 6 People who were children in the 1960s remembered a specific freedom Ainura Kalau