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How Inuit Parents Raise Kids Without Yelling

An incredible story from NPR about raising children that will make you re-think how you bring up yours. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived

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Why Gender-neutral Parenting is Futile

I’ve never understood the idea that because a small number of people have a gender identity problem, that we should extend that problem to others, especially our own kids. “Offering kids the opportunity to pursue what they’d like, freed from societal

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Your kids should learn a musical instrument for their health

Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You James Hudziak and his colleagues analyzed the brain scans of 232 children ages 6 to 18, looking for relationships between cortical thickness and musical training. Previous studies the team had performed

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Reading Readiness Has To Do With The Body

I think we forget that children know automatically how to learn, we just have to give them the freedom to do so. Today’s kids sit more than ever. Babies spend hours confined in car seats and carriers rather than crawling, toddling, or being

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Are electronic devices to blame for moody and ADHD kids?

Psychology Today has an interesting article by Victoria L. Dunckley M.D. suggesting that many of the common illnesses kids are diagnosed with these days, including ADHD, bipolar disorder and depression are the result of overuse of electronics. She recommends children with problems eliminate

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An interview with a woman raised by a lesbian couple lobbies against same-sex marriage

The one thing that never gets mentioned in the discussion about “marriage equality” is the children. A child can only be produced between a man and a woman. Read (or watch) this amazing interview with Katy Faust. Well, there’s a

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Science Proves Reading To Kids Really Does Change Their Brains

It’s nice when science proves things we already knew were common sense! Pediatricians often recommend parents routinely read aloud to their young children. Now, for the first time, researchers have hard evidence that doing so activates the parts of preschoolers’ brains