An interactive, online program that is affordable and convenient teaches divorced parents practical tools that can strengthen positive parent-child relationships.
About Child and Family Blog
How Too Much Math Homework Help From Parents Can Backfire
Parents can hinder their children’s math learning when they help with homework, but can support learning with positive emotions.
Parents can hinder their children’s math learning when they help with homework, but can support learning with positive emotions.
Authoritative Parenting: Balancing Discipline With Warmth and Support
The authoritative parenting style is associated with positive socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes and is recommended by child development experts.
The authoritative parenting style is associated with positive socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes and is recommended by child development experts.
From “Me” to “We”: How Language Communicates Social Norms to Children
Subtle linguistic shifts can powerfully communicate social norms to children.
Subtle linguistic shifts can powerfully communicate social norms to children.
What Is Gentle Parenting and Is It Good for Children?
Is gentle parenting good for children? Analyzing a popular parenting approach from a child development research perspective.
Is gentle parenting good for children? Analyzing a popular parenting approach from a child development research perspective.
Children and War: Loss, Family Stress, and Attachment Relationships
When parents serve in the military, their absence can compromise social-emotional development during infancy and early childhood.
When parents serve in the military, their absence can compromise social-emotional development during infancy and early childhood.
Protecting Children From the Pandemic’s Impacts Requires That We Support Their Parents
As COVID-19 moves from pandemic to endemic, with lingering challenges, it is vital to support those who have buffered children but whose own batteries may be running dangerously low.
As COVID-19 moves from pandemic to endemic, with lingering challenges, it is vital to support those who have buffered children but whose own batteries may be running dangerously low.
Supporting Children and Adolescents With Incarcerated Parents Includes Addressing Social Injustice
Children and adolescents of color are far more likely to have incarcerated parents.
Children and adolescents of color are far more likely to have incarcerated parents.
Digital Picture Books: A New Opportunity for Children Whose Parents Do Not Read With Them
Reading digital books can promote story comprehension more than reading the same books on paper.
Reading digital books can promote story comprehension more than reading the same books on paper.
Children With a Non-Typically Developing Twin Show More Understanding of Others’ Emotions
Humans develop empathy in response to the basic need to care and we know that children who grow up with non-TD siblings often take on greater caregiving roles.
Humans develop empathy in response to the basic need to care and we know that children who grow up with non-TD siblings often take on greater caregiving roles.
Is There a Female Brain and a Male Brain? Science Says No
Despite an exhaustive search for differences between the brains of boys and girls and men and women, scientists see overwhelming similarity.
Despite an exhaustive search for differences between the brains of boys and girls and men and women, scientists see overwhelming similarity.
Parental Alienation: The Psychology of Fractured Parent-Child Relationships
Parental alienation occurs when a child rejects one parent without good cause, usually under the influence of the other parent.
Parental alienation occurs when a child rejects one parent without good cause, usually under the influence of the other parent.
The Negative Effects of COVID-19 on Children
For every COVID-19 death, one child has lost a parent or caregiver.
For every COVID-19 death, one child has lost a parent or caregiver.
Play and Its Surprises Teach Brains by Fuelling Reflective Thinking
Reflective thinking is a vital aid to the central function of the brain – improving its capacity to predict what will happen next. Play is important because it can prompt such reflection.
Reflective thinking is a vital aid to the central function of the brain – improving its capacity to predict what will happen next. Play is important because it can prompt such reflection.
Latina Teenagers in United States Spend More Time With Parents and Siblings Than Do Other Teenagers
Differences in attitudes and values, 'familismo' and 'marianismo', may explain why Latina teenagers spend more time with their families than do teens from other ethnic groups.
Differences in attitudes and values, ‘familismo’ and ‘marianismo’, may explain why Latina teenagers spend more time with their families than do teens from other ethnic groups.
How Do Children and Their Parents in Two Cultures – Native American (Menominee) And Non-native American – Combine Speech and Gesture?
Children across cultures use gestures to communicate. Gestures help make speaking easier and support children in conveying their ideas.
Children across cultures use gestures to communicate. Gestures help make speaking easier and support children in conveying their ideas.