Family Life
How to Maintain Routines During Holidays and Travel
Holiday gatherings and family travel inevitably disrupt the routines your child has grown accustomed to. Rather than viewing this as a failure of your...
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Parenting
Routines as Support for Parents and Children
By 5 p.m., you have made roughly 200 small decisions today: when to feed the baby, what to wear, which sippy cup, whether the meltdown over the blue s...
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Parenting
Parent Rituals as a Source of Stability
A toddler who watches their mother make tea the same way every morning before anyone else is awake is absorbing more than the smell of bergamot. They...
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Parenting
How to Maintain Stability During Family Transitions
Children are not actually fragile in the face of change. They are fragile in the face of *layered* change — the move plus the new school plus the pare...
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Parenting
The Impact of Housing Instability on Young Children
Housing instability—moving frequently, homelessness, unsafe housing—affects young children deeply. They need a stable place to sleep, a sense of home,...
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Family Life
Housing and Stability in Early Childhood
A child who has moved four times before kindergarten is doing something different with their nervous system than a child who has slept in the same bed...
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Family Life
How Single Parents Build a Stable Routine
The same family-routines research that benefits any household (Spagnola & Fiese, 2007; the broader Fiese family-rituals work) shows up even more stron...
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Family Life
How Single Parents Build a Stable Routine
Single parenting is partly a logistics problem. There's no one upstairs you can hand the baby to while you make the call. There's no second adult cove...
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Family Life
Family Rules and Their Role in Stability
"Rules" sounds like a stiff word for a household with a toddler in it. But families function on rules whether or not they're stated — and when they're...
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Emotions
The Role of Parents in Supporting Emotional Stability
Parents often look for the right thing to say or the right technique to deploy when their child is falling apart. The research keeps pointing somewher...
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Emotions
How Parental Emotional Stability Influences Child Behavior
You've probably seen this firsthand. On the days you're stretched thin, your three-year-old falls apart over the wrong colored cup. On a calmer Saturd...
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Daycare
Why a Stable Schedule Makes Adaptation Easier
A schedule that varies day-to-day keeps a young child's nervous system in partial alert mode. They're not just dealing with the new environment; they'...
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Family Life
How to Support a Child Through Neighborhood Changes
A two-year-old can tell you, with conviction, that the duck pond is "this way" and the green slide is "the right one". When the duck pond is drained f...
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