Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman conclude Nurture Shock with a look at gratitude. While it’s always been regarded as important, only recently have researchers come to believe gratitude is more…
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“People simply cannot tell when kids are lying,” authors Bronson and Merryman argue. Despite parents’ claims otherwise, research actually reveals the opposite is true. And that’s not the only conventional…
“For decades, we assumed that children will only see race when society points it out to them…However, child development researchers have increasingly begun to question that presumption. They argue that…
For the first few minutes he was onstage, he seemed to have a hard time finding his groove. The audience from Open High School was restive. Richmond’s celebrity storyteller stuttered…
Her favorite day of the year is April 13. It’s not her birthday. It’s not the first day of spring. It’s the day Allison Gillman saw her cousin in a…
When my daughter was younger and in the middle of a meltdown, I tried to justify her behavior to my parents by saying, “She’s really tired.” I remember my mom…
According to Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman, authors of the Nurture Shock, new research suggests that if you tell your child she’s special, you’ll ruin her. “It’s a neurobiological fact,”…
“You may think it’s fine for your daughter to have sex, or you may have been scouting out chastity belts online. Either way, you certainly don’t want her to contract…
I must admit I almost skipped the chapter on “Facing the Abstinence Decision” because I have no intention of telling my daughters to abstain from sex until marriage. As far…
Just because you’ve destroyed the bad photographs proving you suffered through the awkward stages of adolescence chances are that doesn’t mean you were able to erase it from your memory. …
“How can I give my daughter a healthy attitude toward sex but prevent her from having any?” authors Justin Richardson and Mark Schuster claim a lot of parents want to…
“All of the psychology courses I had taken had warned of the dangers of the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you labeled a child as a slow learner, he could begin to…
