Parenting
How Your Own Upbringing Influences How You Parent
There's a moment most parents have lived through and quietly never told anyone. You're tired, the toddler has done something maddening for the eighth...
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Parenting
Teaching Children to Recognize Their Own Emotions
Your 4-year-old is on the floor screaming about a sock. You ask what they're feeling and they look at you like you've asked them to do calculus. They...
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Parenting
How to Recognize When Your Resources Are Running Low
Parental burnout doesn't arrive with an alarm. The 2018 Parental Burnout Assessment, validated across more than 40 countries, identified the same thre...
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Parenting
How Parents Grow Alongside Their Children
We talk endlessly about child development and almost never about the developmental work happening on the other side of the relationship. Parenting is...
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Parenting
Why Parenthood Intensifies Inner Dialogue
If you've noticed that your internal monologue has become louder and more insistent since becoming a parent, you're not alone. Parenthood creates cond...
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Parenting
How to Identify Your Own Parenting Style
Most parents have a sense of how they parent, but it's often inaccurate. You might think you're authoritative while actually being permissive, or vice...
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Parenting
How to Find Your Parenting Style
Every parent has a style—a collection of approaches, responses, and beliefs that characterize how they parent. But few parents consciously choose thei...
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Parenting
Why Parental Awareness Matters More Than Techniques
The trap most parents fall into is collecting techniques the way you'd collect tools — scripts, methods, frameworks, the next book. The trap doesn't s...
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Parenting
Can You Change Your Parenting Approach? Yes — Here's What the Research Shows
The decision to parent differently from how you were parented — calmer, warmer, less harsh, less anxious, less absent, more attuned, more boundaried,...
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Emotions
Early Signs of Parental Burnout
Parental burnout isn't ordinary tiredness. Researchers Isabelle Roskam and Moïra Mikolajczak, who developed the Parental Burnout Assessment, estimate...
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Emotions
How a Child's Sense of Self Develops
"Who am I?" sounds like a question for philosophers, but children answer the basic version of it before they're three. The sense of self — the foundat...
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Emotions
How Self-Awareness Develops in Children
A two-year-old who points to herself in a photo and says her name has just demonstrated something a four-month-old simply cannot do. Self-awareness is...
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Emotions
Self-Conscious Emotions: Pride, Shame, and Embarrassment After Age One
A 14-month-old who stacks two blocks and immediately turns to look at you with their arms up and a giant grin is doing something genuinely new in thei...
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