Greater father involvement has been found to be linked with academic performance at school. This was true for all socioeconomic groups.
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How Children Can Learn Common Stereotypes From Adults
How common stereotypes emerge in childhood: Children don’t just learn from what adults say but also from what they don’t say.
How common stereotypes emerge in childhood: Children don’t just learn from what adults say but also from what they don’t say.
Children Learn Through Play – and They Know It!
Children are aware that they are effectively learning through the medium of play
Children are aware that they are effectively learning through the medium of play
‘Lockdown Learning’ Questions Conventional Children’s Education
Lockdown learning highlights how schools fail to build on children’s natural ways of learning; Through their independent curiosity and learning approaches.
Lockdown learning highlights how schools fail to build on children’s natural ways of learning; Through their independent curiosity and learning approaches.
Play Could Help Reduce ‘COVID-19 Slump’ in Learning
The potential loss could require some children to repeat a grade. However, play with family members can stem decline and support parental mental health.
The potential loss could require some children to repeat a grade. However, play with family members can stem decline and support parental mental health.
Tell Young Children How COVID-19 Is Transmitted
Explaining how COVID-19 moves and causes sickness works better than admonishment to encourage handwashing and social distancing.
Explaining how COVID-19 moves and causes sickness works better than admonishment to encourage handwashing and social distancing.
Talking to Children About Racism
Breaking the cycle of bias and violence starts at home.
Breaking the cycle of bias and violence starts at home.
Social Media Rescues Young People’s Sanity
There’s little evidence that screen time harms adolescents’ mental health, and the pandemic highlights how we should look for its benefits.
There’s little evidence that screen time harms adolescents’ mental health, and the pandemic highlights how we should look for its benefits.
A Father’s Brain and Biology Change When He Cares for His Baby – in Humans, Marmosets and Voles
A father’s brain is shaped much more by extent to which he is engaged in caring, or has been in the past: The more/Less he cares, the more/Less his brain changes.
A father’s brain is shaped much more by extent to which he is engaged in caring, or has been in the past: The more/Less he cares, the more/Less his brain changes.
The Social Effects of Video Games on Boys and Girls
The social effects of video games are hard to decipher, this norwegian study finds.
The social effects of video games are hard to decipher, this norwegian study finds.
How Is Empathy Developed? the Role of the Support of a Mother or Father
How empathy is developed in toddlers is important for later social development in children
How empathy is developed in toddlers is important for later social development in children
Boys Want Intimate Male Friendship to Avoid Going “Wacko”
They say that sharing secrets is vital for their mental health, yet they struggle to keep such friendships as pressures to “man up” intensify.
They say that sharing secrets is vital for their mental health, yet they struggle to keep such friendships as pressures to “man up” intensify.
Parents’ Working Hours, Far More Than Gender Beliefs, Influence How Parents Share Care
Research by a team at the university of manchester demonstrates that a mother’s working hours are overwhelmingly the biggest influence on whether british fathers of three-year-olds share care of the child.
Research by a team at the university of manchester demonstrates that a mother’s working hours are overwhelmingly the biggest influence on whether british fathers of three-year-olds share care of the child.
Mothers of Sons Do More Paid Work Than Mothers of Daughters
A German study has found that compared to parents of an only daughter, parents of an only son did more paid work.
A german study has found that compared to parents of an only daughter, parents of an only son did more paid work.
Parents Who Disagree About Baby Sleep Report More Conflict and Less Trust
A new study of mothers and fathers has found that the dynamics between the parents is linked to infant sleep.
A new study of mothers and fathers has found that the dynamics between the parents is linked to infant sleep.
Gendered Patterns of Housework Persist Even When the Mother Is the Breadwinner
Gendered patterns of housework persist between full-time breadwinning mothers and full-time breadwinning fathers.
Gendered patterns of housework persist between full-time breadwinning mothers and full-time breadwinning fathers.