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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

How Repetition and Routine Reduce Conflict

Half of what looks like defiance in a 2- to 4-year-old is actually a child renegotiating something they thought was open for renegotiation. "Do you wa...

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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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Daycare

The Role of Routine in Daycare Settings

A two-year-old in a routine-rich room is a different child from the same two-year-old dropped into a chaotic one. Predictable structure does measurabl...

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