Parenting
Role Distribution in a Family With a Young Child
Six months in, most couples can tell you exactly who does the laundry. Almost none can tell you who is in charge of remembering the pediatrician's num...
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Parenting
Why One-on-One Time With Each Child Matters
With more than one child, one-on-one time is the first thing to go. Bath, dinner, bedtime — efficiency wins, and you end up parenting the group. The c...
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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...
11 min read
Family Life
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...
7 min read
Family Life
How to Divide Attention Between Children of Different Ages
When a second child arrives, parents often experience a sudden, concrete realisation: there is one of me and two of them. Every moment with the baby i...
6 min read
Family Life
Dividing Roles in a Family With a Young Child
One of the most reliable predictors of relationship dissatisfaction after a baby arrives isn't sleep deprivation or financial pressure—it's the feelin...
6 min read
Emotions
Why Three-Year-Olds Often Say No
Three-year-olds say no in a way that is qualitatively different from two-year-olds. The two-year-old's "No" is often reflexive, globalised, and physic...
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