Popular TV series Bluey shows parents of cartoon canine family strategically maximizing benefits of digital media use while reducing harms.
How to Talk With Children About Traumatic Events
After children experience trauma, conversations about their thoughts and feelings can support healthy processing and development.
After children experience trauma, conversations about their thoughts and feelings can support healthy processing and development.
Refugee Children’s Mental Health: The Critical Role of Mothers
Refugee mothers’ mental health affects the quality of their parenting and, in turn, their children’s mental health.
Refugee mothers’ mental health affects the quality of their parenting and, in turn, their children’s mental health.
Building Resilience in Adoption: How Challenges Are Converted to Strengths
One family’s story illustrates elements of thriving.
One family’s story illustrates elements of thriving.
When Children Struggle With Negative Emotions, Parents’ Supportive Reactions Can Help
Caregivers’ assistance with children’s expression and management of negative emotions can boost the likelihood of healthier behaviors in children, especially for those who have difficulty controlling their impulses.
Caregivers’ assistance with children’s expression and management of negative emotions can boost the likelihood of healthier behaviors in children, especially for those who have difficulty controlling their impulses.
Nature Nurtures: Sharing Outdoor Experiences with Children
Parents play a crucial role in shaping their children's outdoor experiences.
Parents play a crucial role in shaping their children’s outdoor experiences.
Prenatal Stress and Children’s Behavior: What Expectant Parents Should Know
New research reveals how mental health during pregnancy may affect children’s behavior, with implications for early intervention and support.
New research reveals how mental health during pregnancy may affect children’s behavior, with implications for early intervention and support.
Controversies Around Children and Digital Technology
Parents can strike a balance between potential risks and rewards of technology use in childhood.
Parents can strike a balance between potential risks and rewards of technology use in childhood.
How Reading Scientific Storybooks and Related Conversations With Children Affect Children’s Persistence
When caregivers read scientific storybooks to their young children and talk to them about hard work, it encourages children to view intelligence as something that can grow over time and to persist longer on challenging tasks.
When caregivers read scientific storybooks to their young children and talk to them about hard work, it encourages children to view intelligence as something that can grow over time and to persist longer on challenging tasks.
Busy Bodies, Busy Minds
Babies’ exuberant behaviors support learning.
Babies’ exuberant behaviors support learning.
Can Parenting Programs Improve Young Children’s Sibling and Peer Relationships?
Evidence-based parenting programs, such as Incredible Years, may help improve sibling relationships in families experiencing frequent sibling conflicts.
Evidence-based parenting programs, such as Incredible Years, may help improve sibling relationships in families experiencing frequent sibling conflicts.
Parents’ and Teens’ Feelings and Blind Spots: Are They Really Seeing Eye-to-Eye?
In a study of Israeli families, parents did not report their teens’ feelings accurately and teens did not report their parents’ feelings accurately.
In a study of Israeli families, parents did not report their teens’ feelings accurately and teens did not report their parents’ feelings accurately.
Beyond Imagination: Focusing on Thoughts and Feelings When Envisioning Motherhood Before and After the Baby’s Arrival
Expectant mothers’ visualizations of caregiving relate to postpartum feelings about parenting.
Expectant mothers’ visualizations of caregiving relate to postpartum feelings about parenting.
Certain Aspects of Parenting Predict Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior
Mothers' and fathers' warmth and hostility affect adolescent boys' and girls' aggressive behavior differently.
Mothers’ and fathers’ warmth and hostility affect adolescent boys’ and girls’ aggressive behavior differently.
What Is the Role of Families in Child Development?
It looks not just at parents’ and carers’ relationship with children but at their relationships with each other (the “community of care”).
It looks not just at parents’ and carers’ relationship with children but at their relationships with each other (the “community of care”).
Parent-Child Reminiscing: Supporting Children’s Memory Skills
As children transition to formal schooling, the way parents talk to them about the past can prepare children to learn new strategies for remembering information.
As children transition to formal schooling, the way parents talk to them about the past can prepare children to learn new strategies for remembering information.