#parenting (73 links)
- What Danes consider healthy childrens’ television | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
<blockquote>According to Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and senior lecturer at MIT, your “terrible twos” and those turbulent teen years are when the brain’s wiring is most malleable. As a result, traumatic experiences that occur during these time periods can alter brain activity and ultimately change gene expressions—sometimes for good.</blockquote>
- What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon' opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
- Claire Thomson | The Guardian theguardian.com
- How Surprises Help Infants Learn — The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- FatallyFlawed fatallyflawed.org.uk
- The Grove, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom smithandfamily.co.uk
<blockquote>most people adhere to one of two mindsets: fixed or growth. Fixed mindsets mistakenly believe that people are either smart or not, that intelligence is fixed by genes. People with growth mindsets correctly believe that capability and intelligence can be grown through effort, struggle and failure. Dweck found that those with a fixed mindset tended to focus their effort on tasks where they had a high likelihood of success and avoided tasks where they may have had to struggle, which limited their learning. People with a growth mindset, however, embraced challenges, and understood that tenacity and effort could change their learning outcomes.</blockquote>
- Raising a Moral Child nytimes.com
<blockquote>The most effective response to bad behavior is to express disappointment. According to independent reviews by Professor Eisenberg and David R. Shaffer, parents raise caring children by expressing disappointment and explaining why the behavior was wrong, how it affected others, and how they can rectify the situation. This enables children to develop standards for judging their actions, feelings of empathy and responsibility for others, and a sense of moral identity, which are conducive to becoming a helpful person. The beauty of expressing disappointment is that it communicates disapproval of the bad behavior, coupled with high expectations and the potential for improvement: “You’re a good person, even if you did a bad thing, and I know you can do better.”</blockquote>
- Tech for the Parent Who Didn't Want to Use Tech theatlantic.com
This is really good.
- Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid - by Shaun Gallagher experimentingwithbabies.com
With babies. Not on babies. Kind of.
- Parenting Science – The science of child-rearing and child development parentingscience.com
Finally found something sciencey. Or at least, someone who attempts to look at literature, rather than parroting guesswork.
<blockquote>When the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed the literature on infant and child sleep training, it reported that in 17 out of 19 published studies, unmodified extinction—the clinical term for crying-it-out—effectively reduced bedtime resistance and the frequency of nighttime wakings, concluding that it “has a strong record of accomplishment.”</blockquote>
- Sound machine study should not cause parents to panic: White noise doesn't make your baby deaf. slate.com
<blockquote>If you, like me, have used a white-noise machine to help your wee one sleep, you probably had a panic attack when you…</blockquote>
- Lostmy.name lostmy.name
<blockquote>Beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written and created especially for every child, this is bespoke storytelling like never before</blockquote>
- Raising Successful Children - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
<blockquote>While doing things for your child unnecessarily or prematurely can reduce motivation and increase dependency, it is the inability to maintain parental boundaries that most damages child development. When we do things for our children out of our own needs rather than theirs, it forces them to circumvent the most critical task of childhood: to develop a robust sense of self.</blockquote>
"Send in your child's drawing - one that they drew and coloured and Child's Own Studio will handcraft a unique stuffed toy, to be cherished for a lifetime." Nice idea.
- Parenting tips that work | Parent Hacks parenthacks.com