Tag: Parenting
5 ways parents can help kids avoid gender stereotypes
Kyl Myers, University of Utah
In the last century, significant progress has been made in advancing gender equity in...
Gaming has benefits and perils – parents can help kids by...
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
As the pandemic forced many Americans to hunker down at home, the video game industry saw record spending and...
Some kindergartners are more likely to be heavy users of online...
Paul L. Morgan, Penn State
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Specific groups of kindergartners in the U.S. are...
Connecting to nature is good for kids – but they may...
Louise Chawla, University of Colorado Boulder
As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that...
Yes, more and more young adults are living with their parents...
Jeffrey Arnett, Clark University
When the Pew Research Center recently reported that the proportion of 18-to-29-year-old Americans who live with their parents has increased during...
Teaching kids to read during the coronavirus pandemic: 5 questions answered
Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Keisha McIntosh Allen and Kindel Turner Nash research...
Why gender reveals have spiraled out of control
Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago
Over Labor Day weekend, two expectant parents didn’t get the viral hit they had hoped for.
During a gender reveal party...
3 ways to get kids to tune in and pay attention...
Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University and Kui Xie, The Ohio State University
When nearly all U.S. brick-and-mortar schools suddenly closed in March 2020...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
