Family Life
Why Preserving Childhood Moments Matters
Childhood between birth and five moves faster than any other period of a person's life — a baby gains roughly three pounds and ten inches of height in...
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Creating a nurturing family environment and daily routines.
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Why Planning Time Together Matters
Most parents I talk to genuinely intend to spend meaningful time with their kids. The week starts well, then a deadline shifts, a sibling gets sick, a...
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Why Planning Time Together Matters
Time is the one resource your child can actually count. They notice when you're around, when you're rushing, and when something else takes priority. P...
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Passing Down Family Values Through Traditions
If you want your child to grow up generous, telling them "be generous" almost never moves the needle. What does: choosing a charity together every Dec...
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Family Pets and Young Children: Managing the Relationship
A lot of families have both young children and pets, and most of the time it works beautifully — kids who grow up with animals tend to develop more em...
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How Relationships Between Partners Change After Having Children
Before kids, you probably had a relationship that ran on long conversations, last-minute plans, and being alone together more than you noticed. Then a...
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Making Parenting Decisions Together
Every day brings parenting decisions: What should the child eat? How do we respond to aggression? Is the child old enough for this activity? Should we...
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How Parental Relationships Affect a Child
The research on how parental relationships affect children is unusually consistent across cultures and methodologies. Studies following children from...
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How Parental Relationships Affect a Child
While much parenting literature focuses on the parent-child relationship, research consistently shows that the relationship between parents (or caregi...
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Healthy Conflict Resolution Modeled for Children
Research by E. Mark Cummings and Patrick Davies, who have spent decades studying how marital conflict affects children, makes an important and somewha...
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Organizing Household Life With Children
Households with young children are messier than households without them. This isn't a management problem to be solved—it's a feature of the environmen...
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How to Organize a Family Day
A day with young children that hasn't been thought about at all tends to drift: no one is sure who's feeding whom and when, the nap gets missed becaus...
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Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby
Having a new baby is the most significant change that can happen to a child who has previously been an only child. They're not just getting a sibling—...
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How to Help an Older Child Accept a Younger Sibling
Sibling acceptance is not a destination you arrive at—it's a relationship that develops over time, in both directions, through shared experience. Rese...
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A Family With a Newborn and a Toddler
The combination of a newborn and a toddler in the same household is a specific and well-documented parenting challenge. The newborn needs constant res...
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How to Negotiate Household Responsibilities
Research on heterosexual couples by sociologist Allison Daminger found that even when partners divide physical household tasks relatively equally, wom...
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Differences in the Needs of Younger and Older Children
The most common source of frustration in families with multiple children is applying the same expectations and responses across different developmenta...
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Life With Multiple Children Under Three
Parenting two children under three is objectively one of the most demanding sustained experiences most adults encounter. It's not the same as demandin...
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Mother–Child Bonding and Its Impact on Family Atmosphere
Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby and extensively studied since, identifies the primary caregiver relationship as foundational to a child's...
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Morning and Evening Family Habits
The bookends of the day carry disproportionate weight for family wellbeing. Research on morning affect—emotional tone in the early hours—finds that it...
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