Tag: Parenting
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Thinking about having baby? Even during climate crisis?
Scholar says increasing numbers of young adults are weighing what is best for planet, children
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Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it
Anxiety and depression top parental concerns about their children, a Pew survey finds. Harvard experts offer advice.
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Parents are so wrong about teenage sleep and health
Harvard-affiliated study upends common myths around melatonin, weekends, school start times.
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Why being a working mom is still so tough
In a new book, “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,” Professor Claudia Goldin traces five generational groups of college-educated women across 120 years.
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Catherine Dulac wins Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences
Catherine Dulac is awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her pioneering work identifying the neural circuitry that regulates parenting behavior.
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The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online, according to a member of the Youth and Media team of researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society,
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Research sheds light on how parents operate
In a new study, Harvard researchers describe how separate pools of neurons control individual aspects of parenting behavior in mice.
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Mom, dad set in their ways? Maybe it’s not their fault
Research led by Hopi Hoekstra breaks new ground by uncovering links between the activity of specific genes and parenting differences across species
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Pinched minds
The accumulation of money woes and day-to-day anxiety leaves many low-income individuals not only struggling financially, but cognitively, says Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan. In a study featured in Science, he reports that the “cognitive deficit” caused by poverty translates into as many as 10 IQ points.
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Baby, it’s been a wild ride
Master’s recipient Lena Eisen proves that having a child and going to graduate school at the same time can make for a workable adventure.
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Help on the home front
Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.
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How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents
Nearly 95 percent of parents think their own children are overindulged; now Bromfield, a clinical instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychology, lays down rules — “take back the power!” — to parenting, the hardest job in the world.
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Tatar plumbs the lore and enchantment of children’s stories, revealing their power to ensnare imaginations, and highlights the magic of reading and what children take from it.
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Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home
Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works…
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Author McGowan is honored as ‘2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year’
Can parents raise moral children without religion? Greg Epstein M.T.S. ’07 thinks so. He’s the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, and has just finished writing a book due out next fall. Its title: “Good Without God.”
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Weight gain in pregnancy linked to overweight in kids
Pregnant women who gain excessive or even appropriate weight, according to current guidelines, are four times more likely than women who gain inadequate weight to have a baby who becomes overweight in early childhood. These findings are from a new study at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and…
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The achievement gap, a look into causes
Paul Tough’s prescription for making children better students sounds like a license to have fun: Read to them, sing, play, emphasize encouragement over criticism, and converse a lot. Research shows a correlation between how many words a child hears in the first three years of life and brain development, he said. The more words, the…
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Spread of common day care illnesses caused by misconceptions about illness transmission
A Harvard Medical School study found that only two-thirds of parents believed that contact transmission was important for the spread of colds, and fewer than half believed it was important…
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Some video games contain more violence than parents expect
If a video game is rated “E” for “suitable for everyone,” that is supposed to be a signal to parents that the game is acceptable for their children. But a…
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Study defines clear roles for parents of teenagers
A new study by the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health cuts through the confusion that parents of teenagers experience because of conflicting advice. The…
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The whys and woes of child beauty pageants
Hilary Levey, a member of the Harvard College Class of ’02, studied child beauty pageants. “With the death of JonBenet Ramsey, there’s been a barrage of interest in beauty pageants…