There’s little evidence that screen time harms adolescents’ mental health, and the pandemic highlights how we should look for its benefits.
Professor Candice L. OdgersJune 2020
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Children can provide great insight into the experience of remote online learning, on both benefits and challenges.
Roberta Michnick GolinkoffJune 2020
Explaining how Covid-19 moves and causes sickness works better than admonishment to encourage handwashing and social distancing.
Vanessa LoBueJune 2020
Breaking the cycles of bias and violence starts at home by talking to children about racism rather than well-meaning adults avoiding the subject.
Professor Diane L. HughesJune 2020
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“Educators, parents and policy makers should all be concerned at the rapid decline in unsupervised free play for children, which may damage early child development and later social and emotional learning.”
Stuart BrownFounder and President of National Institute for Play, California, USA
Research from 16,652 individuals shows that divorce affects not only children’s ability to earn but reduces their wealth by 46% on average.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2020
It is possible to build children’s self-esteem without turning them into narcissists, but it requires thought and care.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2020
Greater father involvement has been found to be linked with academic performance at school. This was true for all socioeconomic groups.
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2020
Emotionally supportive parenting can help disadvantaged children and has been shown to have long-term positive impact.
Xutong ZhangApril 2020
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An Assorted Pick
Less direct approach to interviewing child abuse victims increases disclosures, prosecutions, guilty pleas & convictions, providing better child protection.
Teenage risk taking and the social influence of friends may reflect maturing of the adolescent brain
Differential rates of brain development, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, may help explain some behaviour among young people.
Reducing family poverty, particularly in very early years, may diminish the educational gap at age 5 that’s so hard to shrink.
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