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How to Raise a More Resilient Kid
5280.com
~15 min read · · Children and teens in Colorado are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. Even so, they can still learn to endure difficulties and rebound from failure. · Shared by 63
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Finding Our Best Response to Children’s Turbulent Emotions
janetlansbury.com
~19 min read · · Janet responds to emails from parents who describe struggling with their children’s strong emotions. One writes that her 2-year-old rejects her comfort when he has a meltdown: “It breaks my heart, and… · Shared by 63
Parents
We Need To Change the Way We Talk About Stay-at-Home Dads
Parents
5 min read · · Stay-at-home dad jokes are misogynistic and unoriginal. So why do so many people still make them? · Shared by 61
Fatherly
Kindergarten Friendships are Crucial. Help Your Kid Make Them.
Fatherly
3 min read · · Few school friendships survive from kindergarten to adulthood, but every school friend a child makes demonstrates an important aspect of their development. · Shared by 87, including Dr. Laura Markham
romper.com
Tantrums Are Coming: Neurodiversity Experts Share 10 Tips For All Types Of Kids
romper.com
6 min read · · The same strategies that help neurodiverse kids cope with transitions work great for kids of all types · Shared by 74
Greater Good
How to Survive Your Toddler’s Epic Tantrum
Greater Good
6 min read · · Rest assured, you can learn not to lose it during your child's tantrums (and to prevent meltdowns in the future). · Shared by 100
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The Atlantic
There Is No Road Map for the Longest Phase of Parenthood
The Atlantic
6 min read · · When a kid becomes an adult, a new, confusing stage of the parent-child relationship begins, yet there’s little guidance to help families navigate it. · Shared by 172
Guardian Tech
Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids
Guardian Tech
~16 min read · · The long read: When children first started flocking to YouTube, some seriously strange stuff started to appear – and after much outcry, the company found itself scrambling to fix the problem · Shared by 155
romper.com
Every Mom Knows Exactly What It Means To Be A She-Hulk
romper.com
3 min read · · She Hulk: Attorney At Law, now streaming on Disney, is the perfect metaphor for the controlled, channeled anger that so many moms feel. · Shared by 144
The New York Times
The Enduring Wisdom of ‘Goodnight Moon’
The New York Times
8 min read · · It’s the first book many babies receive as a gift, and one of the few that parents will keep when their child is grown. Why does this 75 year-old story have such staying power? · Shared by 140, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Sarah Lyall
The Associated Press
More kids are repeating a grade. Is it good for them?
The Associated Press
5 min read · · HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Braylon Price remembers it, he struggled with pretty much everything the first full school year of the pandemic. With minimal guidance and frequent disruptions, he had… · Shared by 125
The Cut
How TikTok Has Supercharged the Age-Old Debate Over Sleep Training
The Cut
20+ min read · · The never-ending discourse over how to put your baby to sleep enters the digital age. · Shared by 119
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The Match
fiftytwo.in
~20 min read · · A generation of Europeans is now returning to Sri Lanka, a country from which they were adopted as children, to search for their birth mothers. What they learn about their families, and themselves,… · Shared by 115
The Cut
Why Do Moms Love Fall So Much?
The Cut
6 min read · · After months of ad hoc caregiving and catastrophic weather, the season and all its decorative trappings offer moms a less chaotic reality. · Shared by 113
CNBC
I talked to 70 parents of highly successful adults—here are 5 things they always said to their…
CNBC
3 min read · · Parenting expert and author Margot Bisnow, who is a mother to two entrepreneurial sons, interviewed 70 families who raised confident, smart and successful kids. Here's are the five things they said to… · Shared by 105
Greater Good
How to Survive Your Toddler’s Epic Tantrum
Greater Good
6 min read · · Rest assured, you can learn not to lose it during your child's tantrums (and to prevent meltdowns in the future). · Shared by 100
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Saying goodbye to the “deferred life plan”
radreads.co
4 min read · · I did something crazy this week. I flew down to Mexico by myself for a 4 day surf trip. No kids. No wife. Fish tacos every day. A $90 a night hotel room with youth hostel vibes. And tons of surfing.… · Shared by 729
Eric Barker
This Is How To Have Emotionally Intelligent Relationships: 4 Secrets
Eric Barker
10 min read · · We all have reflexive bad habits in relationships. They're due to what psychologists call "schema." Here's how we can fix them... · Shared by 665
Vox
An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth
Vox
7 min read · · Life is short. Here’s how to cherish every day of it. · Shared by 591, including Marsha Collier, Joe Lencioni
Pew Research Internet
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
Pew Research Internet
~14 min read · · The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has… · Shared by 545, including Casey Newton, David V. Johnson, Matt Navarra, Amjad Masad ⠕, Bruce Lawson, Jeremiah Owyang | jowyang.eth, jowyang.sol, Sarah Frier, Rob Biederman, Chris Messina, Frank Luntz, Monica Burns, Ed.D. #EdTech, Brian Solis, David Frankel, Timothy Caulfield, Alan See, Gisele Navarro, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻, Jonathan Haidt, Renee DiResta, George Conway🌻
Farnam Street
5 Mental Models to Remove (Some of) the Confusion from Parenting
Farnam Street
9 min read · · No topic provokes more unsolicited advice than parenting. The problem is, no matter how good the advice, it might not work for your child or your particular situation. Here are 5 principle-based… · Shared by 441, including Scott Monty, Jason Lauritsen
The Atlantic
The Nuclear Family Was Never Going to Last
The Atlantic
20+ min read · · The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together. · Shared by 425, including Matthew Holt, Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️, Bilal Zuberi, John Nosta, Christopher Mims 🤌, Mathias Böhm, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., ₿ully, Kanyi Maqubela, Miles Kimball, John Hagel, Stewart Alsop, tylercowen, Chris Messina, Stowe Boyd, David Perell, Howard Getson, Dominik Grolimund, Shelly Kramer, Nir Eyal
The Conversation
Why can’t you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know…
The Conversation
7 min read · · Psychologists know babies can form memories soon after birth. So why can’t people remember anything that happened to them before around age 2? A child development expert describes possible reasons. · Shared by 387, including Stephan Spencer
The Atlantic
Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
The Atlantic
5 min read · · Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind some kids' capacity to delay gratification. · Shared by 370, including Nir Eyal, Benedict Evans, Anita Leirfall, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Greg Meyer, adrianoesch, Fern, pןɐʍuɐƃɐɹ, Scott Berkun, Nils Hitze, Michael Seemann, Tim Harford, tjalve, Oliver Reichenstein, Dominik Grolimund, John Zeratsky, Klaus Eck, andrewchen, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Karen McGrane
The Atlantic
What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
The Atlantic
5 min read · · Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated. · Shared by 357, including Dr Jordan B Peterson, Brian Leiter, Olga Khazan, Timothy Caulfield, reshmasaujani, Arielle Pardes, David Cohn, Paul Bloom, Phillip Murphy, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Matt Lieberman
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