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Students in high-achieving schools are now named an ‘at-risk’ group, study says
Communities touting the best-ranked schools are often the most in-demand among families. But this competitive environment can come at a psychological cost to those attending them. Emerging research is finding that students in “high-achieving schools”
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Parental Burnout Can Lead to Harmful Outcomes for Parent and Child
The intense exhaustion of parental burnout can lead parents to feel detached from their children and unsure of their parenting abilities.
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Stop Posting Your Child’s Tantrum on Instagram
What should a parent do when a 2-year-old shrieks inconsolably because her string cheese wrapper tore “the wrong way”? Increasingly, the answer is “snap a photo, add a snarky caption and upload it to Instagram.”
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Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature
Are humans born kind? We both assumed, as parents of young children, that kindness is just something our kids would pick up by osmosis, because we love them. It’s a common assumption. “We often just
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Bus Stops May Be as Good a Place as Any for a STEM Lesson
Be it for school or just running errands, thousands of children and their parents wait for the bus every day. A pilot program in Pennsylvania is trying to squeeze a little more science, technology, engineering
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How To Help A Kid Survive Early Puberty
From surging hormones and acne to body hair and body odor, puberty can be a rocky transition for any kid. But girls and boys who start physically developing sooner than their peers face particular social
