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In low-income families, shared parental responsiveness helps kids

Categories Technology
Woman and child view wild primate parent and child in a wild setting. (Getty Images)

Humans are unique but not exceptional species of mammal

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
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Obesity risk may pass from mothers to daughters

Categories Health
Experts react to Pew findings with advice for families, including ideas for at-home interventions

Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
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“What a wonderful day, I’m so happy!” Research shows how children learn emotion labels through parents’ speech

Categories Brain & Behavior
New research defies long-held worries that lots of videogame playing could hamper young children’s pace of learning. A study of fifth graders published in the Journal of Media Psychology found no meaningful links between video game playing – even for hours – and the children’s cognitive ability. The news is likely to reassure parents and thrill game-loving kids.

Video game playing causes no harm to young children’s cognitive abilities

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
Graphs showing the average age at conception for men versus women over the past 250,000 years. Images courtesy of the Hahn Lab

Fathers consistently older than mothers throughout human history

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health, Social Sciences
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Mothers’ alcohol use changed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Categories Technology
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Study: Frequently using digital devices to soothe young children may backfire

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology
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