- Parents and caregivers are essential to children’s healthy development
Parents, families and caregivers ensure children are healthy and safe, equip them with skills and resources to succeed, and transmit basic cultural values
- Keeping teens safe on social media: What parents should know to protect . . .
A multipronged approach to social media management, including time limits, parental monitoring and supervision, and ongoing discussions about social media can help parents protect teens’ brain development
- Parenting - American Psychological Association (APA)
The job of parenting aims to ensure children’s health and safety, prepare children for life as productive adults, transmit cultural values, and more
- Question about the possessive plural: parent’s or parents’?
Parents’ is used in the plural form for both parents, so there is an apostrophe after the letter -s, as in parents’ house This is because the word is first pluralized to parents with the addition of the letter -s and then cannot have another -s added to show possession, thus an apostrophe is added in front of the whole
- What advice do psychologists have to offer on how parents can manage . . .
Parenting, while rewarding, brings significant challenges and stress, often leading to burnout This article explores parental burnout, its impact, and offers practical advice from psychologists on managing stress and finding support
- Parental favoritism isn’t a myth
Research reveals how personality traits, birth order, and gender influence parental favoritism, offering insights into family dynamics and the importance of fair treatment
- How becoming a parent changes the brain
Becoming a parent is a huge life transition Now researchers are finding evidence that parenthood actually changes the brain—and these changes happen to fathers as well as to mothers Darby Saxbe, PhD, talks about the brain and hormonal shifts that occur in new moms and dads; the advantages and risks these changes confer; why paternity leave matters; and how to support people as they become
- Parenting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For many parents, home in the age of COVID-19 has become the office, the classroom, even the gym Many parents are struggling to not only keep their children occupied, but also to oversee schooling, even as they telework, grocery shop and perform all the other daily necessities of family life At the same time, children may be reacting to stress by acting out or regressing to behaviors long
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