Terrible or terrific? There is a lot going when you’re two.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Parenting
Displaying 121 - 140 of 736 articles
Disabled single mother Shakira Hussein reflects on her secret weapon against adversity. Adalya, her ‘excessively mature’ daughter, appointed herself her mother’s carer and fierce protector from age 9.
Making daily time to connect with their children is an important way of nurturing family experiences and relationships and to find restoration.
How to have important conversations with kids about world events like those taking place in Ukraine, and how to tailor them based on age and maturity levels — from child psychologists.
Researchers have spent decades studying how demographics affect American students’ opportunities and performance, but many questions remain about religion and school.
Many Australian children are returning to school after spending the best part of two years learning from home. Such a long break can understandably make many anxious. But there are ways to help.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
As a society, we must shift our collective culture away from a silent complacency around interpersonal trauma and towards intentionally working to prevent it.
As women’s relationship with work and career has changed, so too has the relationship with parenting. What women need now is more targeted support in raising children.
A contrast to the bumbling and immature fathers commonly found on sitcoms, Bob Saget’s character on ‘Full House’ reflected a shift in expectations of fatherhood that began in the late 1970s.
Teens across millennia have yearned to explore, try new things and participate in risky behaviours. The key difference, however, seems to be the experience of a rebellion or restlessness.
Not all parents agree about vaccinating their child. Here’s what’s likely to happen if cases go to court.
Demonstrating for parents how to talk with their babies and toddlers can improve kids’ vocabulary and math skills, new research finds.
Parenting means internal competition between three evolved responses: the threat, drive and soothing system. The threat light is on often, but it can be dampened by tapping into the soothing system.
Pediatricians and other health care providers can take some concrete steps toward building trust and counteracting anti-vaccination misinformation.
Many fathers act as a central support for their partner and child – but some feel they lack support themselves.
As many as two-thirds of couples do it.
Every small change to promote healthy levels of screen time is a step in the right direction for the health, wellbeing and development of children.
Parents who spy on their children’s online activity run the risk of doing more harm than good, an expert says.
Teens have been through a lot in the pandemic and things won’t simply go back to normal as the nation opens up. Here’s how to support their mental health during the transition.
Top contributors
-
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
-
Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
-
Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
-
Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
-
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
-
Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
-
Assistant professor, School of Psychology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
-
Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
-
Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
-
Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
-
NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
-
Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre, The University of Queensland
-
The University of Queensland
