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How should a parent deal with misbehavior? The study of corporal punishment offers insights.
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Why Do Children of Divorce Sleep Only at Mom’s House?
If we value dad's involvement while the parents are living together, why withdraw our support and deprive the child just because the parents no longer live together?
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Paternity Leave Helps Children by Promoting Coparenting
Paternity leave is a good start to fatherhood, but well-designed parental leave underpins the sharing of care that boosts early childhood development.
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Kids With Involved Dads Thrive. So Do the Dads.
Through closeness, engagement, and connection with kids, dads create a positive space for their kids. They also benefit themselves.
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How Do Kids Learn How to Make Friends?
By teaching them how to play, and offering a particular kind of emotional and social support, dads are crucial to pave the way for kids friendships — if we let them.
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Why Do Kids With Married Parents Do Better?
What exactly is the advantage of being raised by parents who are married? As professor David C. Ribar explains, it’s complicated.
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Parents Who Raise High-Achieving Kids Talk to Them Like This
The way you talk to toddlers can determine how well they do in school throughout life. But not just any conversation will do.
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When Do Babies Start Sitting Up?
Not all babies start sitting up in the same time frame. What's more important is the way they go about trying to do so.
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Does Your Toddler’s Tantrums Point to a Bigger Problem? Here’s How to Know.
A new study offers clues as to how to tell the difference between everyday tantrums and ones that are signs of bigger issues.
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Why Do Babies Hiccup So Much? For Brain Development. Seriously.
Baby hiccups might seem like a strange quirk or muscle development, but they're so very much more than that.
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The IQ Test for Kids That Never Caught On
An IQ test for babies might sound like an absurd gamble, but in 1986 Joseph Fagan III made a breakthrough that could "predict an infant's future intelligence." Luckily, it never caught on.
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Parenting Is About You, Not the Baby
What kind of parent are you? The answer is happily clear: It doesn’t matter, not in the least.
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The Only 3 Milestones That Matter in a Baby's First Month
Most parents overdo the whole milestone thing in the first month. Stop stressing out and focus on the three developmental moments that really matter.
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Eat, Play, Love: The Science of Play and Its Impact on Childhood
For kids, play is a state of being. For parents, it’s an investment in time and money (just ask the $28 billion toy industry). But what, exactly, is play? Science has an answer.
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