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Creative family life, childhood, and artful play — updated as we publish.
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Aug 27
Children who spend at least three hours a week playing on uneven natural ground develop measurably better balance and…
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Aug 27
In 1950, a Yale professor named Josef Albers began handing his students coloured paper squares instead of paint and…
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Aug 27
Overthinking the moment the lights go off is closely tied to how the brain processes unresolved emotions, and…
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Aug 27
Did children of the sixties and seventies really handle adversity better than kids today? The evidence splits neatly in…
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Aug 25
When a New Caledonian crow strips a barbed length off a pandanus leaf to fish grubs from a rotting log, it produces a…
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Aug 24
My children are watching me relearn how to want things for myself
Rachel Santos
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Aug 23
Children who play with wooden blocks practise spatial reasoning, and researchers at the University of Delaware found…
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Aug 22
Moms who seem to have great skin and no apparent effort aren't always genetically blessed
Rachel Santos
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Aug 21
Parenting through hard years without falling apart isn't always resilience
Rachel Santos
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Aug 21
In 1961, a Soviet dog named Zvezdochka orbited Earth eighteen days before Yuri Gagarin flew, and photographs of her…
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Aug 20
The night your child cried and you found something close to the right words
Rachel Santos
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Aug 20
At three years old, a child's brain uses glucose at roughly twice the rate of an adult brain, gram for gram, a…
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Aug 20
The parent who won't donate a child's outgrown winter coat isn't behind on decluttering
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Aug 20
At six months, a baby babbling in a nursery in Tokyo produces the same range of consonants as a baby babbling in…
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Aug 20
There is real truth in the idea that pressure reveals who someone is, but the situations that actually expose character…
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Aug 19
Some people don't understand what their mother gave them until they're old enough to need it
Rachel Santos
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Aug 19
Psychology says people who take the parking spot at the far end of the lot when a closer one opens up aren't being…
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Aug 19
In 1907, a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland heated phenol and formaldehyde in an iron pot in his barn laboratory and…
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Aug 19
No single thing a parent does decides whether a child is happy, but two patterns show up again and again in the…
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Aug 19
We treat socializing as the real way to enjoy life and hobbies as what we do when nobody is free, but the research on…
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