Tag: parenting
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Kids See, Kids Do
Read more: Kids See, Kids DoA study at PsychCentral: Modeling Behavior for Children Has Long-Lasting Effects. For the experiments, the children were shown how to open a box — but in a complicated way, with impractical actions thrown in. For example, the adult would drag a stick across a box, then use a stick to open the box by pulling…
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Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)
Read more: Overdoing It (Kids’ Sports Edition)Jane Brody surveys the kids’ sports landscape, and pulls a bracing quote from Until It Hurts: America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids, by Mark Hyman: “Every year more than 3.5 million children under 15 require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse.”
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Focus on the Family
Read more: Focus on the FamilyA massive anthropological study of American family life is complete. Cameras on 32 families; 1,540 hours of video. “This is the richest, most detailed, most complete database of middle-class family living in the world…What it does is hold up a mirror to people. They laugh. They cringe. It shows us life as it is actually…
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Postpartum Depression in Dads
Read more: Postpartum Depression in DadsFrom the L.A. Times: Postpartum depression affects fathers too [link now inactive[. “We are expecting dads to be more involved in parenting than we ever have before…Most dads are welcoming of that, but they don’t have any models about what a dad is supposed to do. That creates uncertainty, and that uncertainty can lead to anxiety…
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Enemies Good for Kids?
Read more: Enemies Good for Kids?Enemies can be good for a child’s growth, say researchers. Almost everyone picks up a tormentor or two while growing up, and until lately psychological researchers have ignored such relationships — assuming them to be little more than the opposite of friendship. Yet new research suggests that as threatening as they may feel, antagonistic relationships…