Belonging
8 articles
Supportive Communities for Parents
The mental-health epidemiology on this is clear and frequently understated. Brown and Harris's classic Camberwell study identified the absence of a co...
Why Children Need to Feel Understood
The feeling of being understood is so basic that adults seek it for the rest of their lives — through partners, therapists, close friends, the right v...
When Children Exclude Others: What It Means
A 4-year-old yelling "you can't play with us!" lands like the start of a lifelong personality. Usually it isn't. The capacity to take another child's...
Creating Family Traditions With Young Children
The traditions a child remembers from childhood are almost never the expensive ones. Ask any adult what they remember from their first five or six yea...
The Role of Family Stories in Children's Identity
The stories a family tells about itself — over breakfast, in the car, at funerals, at bedtime — are not background noise. They are doing real psycholo...
Family as a Source of Emotional Safety
"Emotional safety" can sound abstract, but it's one of the most measurable variables in child development. John Bowlby's attachment theory, Mary Ainsw...
Family Memories and Their Importance
Researchers Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush at Emory University set out to understand what psychological factor best predicted children's resilience. A...
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...