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Creative family life, childhood, and artful play — updated as we publish.
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Aug 9
The real evidence you grew up in a loving home is not a stack of happy memories but a set of quiet adult capacities
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Aug 9
Growing up in a very strict household really can leave lasting marks, but decades of research point to a surprising…
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Aug 9
Feeling safe is not the opposite of adventure but what makes it possible
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Aug 9
I used to think it was strange that my parents still needed to weigh in on decisions that were entirely mine to make…
Nato Lagidze
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Aug 8
In 1929, Jean Piaget noticed his own children treating the moon as if it were following them on evening walks, and the…
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Aug 8
We put enormous weight on how parents shape a child and almost none on siblings, but the research suggests brothers and…
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Aug 8
You cannot build a stronger family with a technique, but the research keeps pointing at the same unglamorous things
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Aug 7
Parents who insist on having the final say in a decision their adult children are perfectly capable of making alone are…
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Aug 7
A child who narrates their every move is not a budding narcissist but someone whose perspective-taking is still coming…
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Aug 7
An 87-year Harvard study keeps finding that what makes people happy in later life is the quality of their…
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Aug 7
Plenty of dads will happily wrestle, chase, and build, then go quiet when the paints come out
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Aug 7
A study of older adults living with or near their adult children found the arrangement supported their sense of…
Nato Lagidze
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Aug 6
Parenting can make a woman feel both more herself and less herself in the same afternoon
Rachel Santos
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Aug 6
When a child stirs cornstarch into water, the mixture turns solid under a sudden punch but liquid under a slow stir
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Aug 6
A bucket list is a record of everything you have not done yet, which is why it can quietly make you feel behind
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Aug 6
The hardest part of making art with a child is keeping your own hands off the picture
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Aug 6
In 1973, Stanford researchers promised preschoolers a gold-star award for drawing, and the children who drew for the…
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Aug 5
Titan's atmosphere is four times thicker than Earth's and its gravity a seventh as strong, which means a child…
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Aug 5
Slide a leaf between two sheets of freezer paper, run a warm iron across the top, and the plastic coating melts into…
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Aug 5
A 2014 study of 55 caregivers eating with young children in fast-food restaurants found the ones most absorbed in their…
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