- Parents and caregivers are essential to children’s healthy development
Parents, families and caregivers ensure children are healthy and safe, equip them with skills and resources to succeed, and transmit basic cultural values
- Parental favoritism isn’t a myth
Research reveals how personality traits, birth order, and gender influence parental favoritism, offering insights into family dynamics and the importance of fair treatment
- Keeping teens safe on social media: What parents should know to protect . . .
A multipronged approach to social media management, including time limits, parental monitoring and supervision, and ongoing discussions about social media can help parents protect teens’ brain development
- Parenting - American Psychological Association (APA)
The job of parenting aims to ensure children’s health and safety, prepare children for life as productive adults, transmit cultural values, and more
- What advice do psychologists have to offer on how parents can manage . . .
Parenting, while rewarding, brings significant challenges and stress, often leading to burnout This article explores parental burnout, its impact, and offers practical advice from psychologists on managing stress and finding support
- Parenting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For many parents, home in the age of COVID-19 has become the office, the classroom, even the gym Many parents are struggling to not only keep their children occupied, but also to oversee schooling, even as they telework, grocery shop and perform all the other daily necessities of family life At the same time, children may be reacting to stress by acting out or regressing to behaviors long
- How to help kids understand and manage their emotions
But parents, teachers, and other caregivers all play a critical role in helping children learn to manage their feelings [Related: Here’s advice from psychologists on how to help kids cope with anger and frustration] Children who manage their emotions well are more likely to do well in school and get along with others
- Mothers – and fathers – report mental, physical health declines
Parents' mental and physical health has been impacted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
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