MOTHER OF ROCK by Paul Anderson, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan For my brother, my sister, and me, Guitar Hero was a competition of who could score the most points on the hardest level. Mom, on the other hand, would play the […]
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Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post Even if you were horrified at the idea of hovering over your child as Amy Chua did in her polarizing 2011 bestseller “The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” I’m betting there was a […]
Kristine Walker, Parent Herald Some parents may be unaware that their parenting style could influence their children’s behavior. While experts find it hard to have an actual cause-and-effect connections on how parents impact child development, researchers have discovered substantial links […]
Lisa Smith, CSN Once upon a time in a world with less electronic devices and more backyard forts and monkey bars lived children who ran free and wild; and where spontaneous games of four-square would erupt. Children would organize themselves […]
Ed Yong, The Atlantic You’re sitting at a table with a friend and a stranger offers you some candy. Hooray! Who doesn’t like candy? But wait! You’re not getting the same amounts. One of you gets four delicious pieces, and […]
Josh Barro, The New York Times According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 78.8 years in 2013 — 76.4 years for men, 81.2 years for women. But I have […]
Aarti Shahani, WNYC Before age 1 (ONE!), nearly half of kids play games or watch videos on a mobile device. That’s according to one recent study of families with young children published in the journal Pediatrics. By the time they’re […]
Jonathan Zimmerman, The New York Times “YOUTH is subjected by our civilization to aggressive sex stimuli and suggestiveness oozing from every pore.” So declared the education professor Clark Hetherington in 1914, condemning the proliferation of racy movies and tell-all magazines. […]
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