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What to Do When Playdates Go Wrong
The playdate going badly in your living room right now is not a sign of a social problem. It is a sign that two small humans with limited regulation s...
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Parenting
Repair After Conflict: The Single Most Useful Skill in Parenting
The bar isn't to avoid conflict with your kid — that's not possible and wouldn't be healthy if it were. The bar is to come back. Half a century of att...
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Parenting
Managing Sibling Conflict in Young Children
The 4-year-old has just shoved the 2-year-old off the sofa over a single specific Duplo brick out of a bin of three hundred. You are about to issue a...
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Parenting
How Co-Parents Can Agree (Most of the Time) Without Constant Conflict
The thing parents fight about most, in clinical and survey data both, is parenting itself. The fights look like an argument about bedtime or screen ti...
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Family Life
Sharing Resources Fairly in a Family With Twins
"Mine!" is a developmentally normal word at eighteen months. It's also the soundtrack of a household with twins, repeated in stereo. Two children at e...
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Family Life
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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Family Life
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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Family Life
Managing Conflicts Between Children at Home
Research on sibling relationships finds that siblings between the ages of two and four have a conflict roughly every 17 minutes on average. That numbe...
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Family Life
How to Discuss Disagreements in Front of Children
Most parents believe they should never argue in front of their children. The research says something more nuanced: it's not the arguing that harms chi...
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Daycare
Conflicts Between Children at Daycare: What's Normal
Put a dozen small children in a room with a finite number of toys and conflict is guaranteed. That is not a flaw in daycare — it is the curriculum. Di...
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Daycare
Montessori Daycare and Socialization: How Children Learn to Interact
A common worry from parents touring a Montessori room: it's too quiet. Children are working alone, in pairs, with materials. Where's the play? Where's...
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Daycare
Conflicts Between Children as a Natural Part of Socialization
A note on the daycare app saying your child had a conflict can land like bad news. It usually is not. Conflict between young children is the actual cl...
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