Parenting
Supportive Communities for Parents
The mental-health epidemiology on this is clear and frequently understated. Brown and Harris's classic Camberwell study identified the absence of a co...
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Parenting
Why Children Need to Feel Understood
The feeling of being understood is so basic that adults seek it for the rest of their lives — through partners, therapists, close friends, the right v...
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Parenting
When Children Exclude Others: What It Means
A 4-year-old yelling "you can't play with us!" lands like the start of a lifelong personality. Usually it isn't. The capacity to take another child's...
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Family Life
Creating Family Traditions With Young Children
The traditions a child remembers from childhood are almost never the expensive ones. Ask any adult what they remember from their first five or six yea...
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Family Life
The Role of Family Stories in Children's Identity
The stories a family tells about itself — over breakfast, in the car, at funerals, at bedtime — are not background noise. They are doing real psycholo...
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Family Life
Family as a Source of Emotional Safety
"Emotional safety" can sound abstract, but it's one of the most measurable variables in child development. John Bowlby's attachment theory, Mary Ainsw...
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Family Life
Family Memories and Their Importance
Researchers Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush at Emory University set out to understand what psychological factor best predicted children's resilience. A...
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Family Life
How Family Identity Is Formed
Psychologists Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush at Emory University spent years studying what gives children psychological resilience. Their landmark fin...
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