Recent highlights
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The physical and psychological triggers of postpartum stress. Includes sleep deprivation, fussy babies, stress hormones and tips for coping. -
Babies possess amazing learning abilities, but they need our help. Evidence-based tips to support language development in babies. - Research suggests that playful, age-appropriate musical training can help babies learn language-related skills.
- When do babies say their first word? Most babies reach this milestone by the end of their first year, but there are individual differences.
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There are facts about gun violence that everyone should be able to accept. If we can find this common ground, we can make the world safer. -
Research suggests that authoritarian parenting makes behavior problems worse. It may also put kids at risk for emotional troubles, and hinder academic performance.
Praise for Parenting Science
“[A] welcome antidote to the opinion dressed up as science that parents are constantly fed. Tear up your parenting books and get yourselves over there…”
– opens in a new windowCharles Fernyhough, Ph.D., developmental psychologist and author of A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist’s Chronicle of his Daughter’s Developing Mind
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– Julienne Rutherford, Ph.D., University of Illinois biological anthropologist and founder of the Biological Anthropology Developing Investigators Troop (BANDIT)
“I came across a great website run by Gwen Dewar, one I wish it had been available to me when my children were young. I hope everyone interested in math and kids will look at opens in a new windowIn search of the smart preschool board game and other pages on this site.”
– Bill Marsh, Ph.D., in mathematics and author of MathInking, a blog about teaching math