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Parenting

Why Some Parents Feel a Loss of Identity

There is a particular sentence parents whisper, often guiltily, often around month five or eight: "I love my child and I have no idea who I am anymore...

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Parenting

Parenthood and Identity

Before your child was born, you had an identity. You were a person with a name, a profession, interests, relationships, a way of moving through the wo...

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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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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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