- 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
- Question about the possessive plural: parent’s or parents’?
Parents’ is used in the plural form for both parents, so there is an apostrophe after the letter -s, as in parents’ house This is because the word is first pluralized to parents with the addition of the letter -s and then cannot have another -s added to show possession, thus an apostrophe is added in front of the whole
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- How becoming a parent changes the brain
Becoming a parent is a huge life transition Now researchers are finding evidence that parenthood actually changes the brain—and these changes happen to fathers as well as to mothers Darby Saxbe, PhD, talks about the brain and hormonal shifts that occur in new moms and dads; the advantages and risks these changes confer; why paternity leave matters; and how to support people as they become
- U. S. teens need far more emotional and social support
Parents continue to be an important source of practical, or “instrumental,” support (driving teens where they need to go) as well as emotional support (offering a sympathetic ear at the end of a bad day) “Adolescents very much need those different dimensions of support from their parents,” McCabe said
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