Tag: Parenting
Should parents help their kids with homework?
Daniel Hamlin, University of Oklahoma
Schools across the country encourage parents to help their children with homework.
Parents are listening. Helping with homework is one of...
Four home traps that contribute to the gender pay gap
Emma Willamson, Monash University
Australia’s gender pay gap is diminishing, says a new report, but some contributors to it seem harder to overcome than others....
5 tips for parents to build communication skills with children with...
Sanikan Wattanawongwan, Texas A&M University and J. Ganz, Texas A&M University
We are researchers who coach parents to communicate with children with disabilities.
Here...
The real midlife crisis confronting many Americans
Frank J. Infurna, Arizona State University
The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters...
How to teach and parent better in the age of big...
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for...
How to teach and parent better in the age of big...
Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington
At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for...
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now...
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida
The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s. So it’s no wonder the...
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...
