Some experts believe what we are sometimes seeing today is not true gentle parenting, but rather an anxious drift into permissive parenting.
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Feeding toddlers can be hard, but research sheds insight into how to help children learn to enjoy a variety of foods and recognize when they are hungry and full.
Learning to recognize thought patterns that lead to avoidance, and breaking tasks down into small parts, can help people overcome the mental barriers that often accompany ADHD.
Supporting a child through intense emotions while managing your own is challenging work. Part of this is to practise identifying and validating emotions.
Children need adults who are well enough to care for them and present enough to notice their struggles. A child development specialist offers four strategies parents can try to use, even when worn down.
Parents of course want to protect their children from difficulty. But sometimes this desire to ‘help’ kids can hamper their development.
The ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill will likely meet the same opposition it has in the past. And it will be a test of the new government’s commitment to genuine regulatory standards.
Cognitive skills related to early literacy can be nurtured this summer by engaging in activities that develop social-emotional skills and positive self-regulation.
Australia risks being left behind in the genomic medicine revolution by failing to protect individuals from genetic discrimination.
White denialism of racism provokes a narrative of ‘us versus them.’ Self-reflection and listening are among the ways to be accountable for interrupting and eradicating racism.
International students are a vulnerable population who have faced many stressors in the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotional intelligence can help navigate these.
Many kindergarten classrooms draw on six principles for helping children to manage the everyday stressors of life, and parents can too.
More than 70% of college students engage in some form of procrastination, research shows.
Australia’s new voluntary code of practice to make IoT devices more secure may expose consumers to greater risks.
One way to maintain our well-being might be to reflect on others’ needs and devise ways to be quietly kind.
Through a play day filled with choices at the beach with supportive adults, unexpected challenges and social experiences all help children to build far more than sand castles.
A Nobel Prize-winning political economist found a way to promote good governance and protect users without the need for heavy-handed government regulation.
Student assessments help children develop self-regulation skills, but teachers don’t have the time when class sizes are large.
If you develop an awareness of how you feel you are more likely to be able to change negative thinking patterns.
South Africans have a right to know why the lapses at Sunday Times occurred and why those that spoke up against them were silenced.
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical Branch
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Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Ontario
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