Category: Being a Parent
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Do Childhood Photographs Change What We Remember?
Pictures do not simply preserve childhood memories. They cue, organise and sometimes reshape the stories families tell about the past.
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Why Is It Getting Harder to Make a Close Friend?
New figures on young people without close friends point to a wider question: what social conditions allow acquaintance to become attachment?
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Why Can Birth Trauma Be Missed After the Baby Comes Home?
Birth-related PTSD can involve flashbacks, avoidance, hypervigilance and distress. It may overlap with postnatal depression, but it is not the same condition.
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Should You Make a Child Finish an Activity They Want to Quit?
When a child wants to quit an activity, perseverance and autonomy can pull parents in opposite directions. A good decision starts by discovering what the child is really trying to leave.
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How Dolly Parton Put Millions of Books Into Children’s Hands
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library grew from a Tennessee county scheme into an international network posting free books to children from birth to five. Its real achievement was turning access into a monthly habit.
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Do Children Change Their Parents’ Beliefs?
A Japanese study found that fathers whose first child was a daughter held more gender-equal attitudes. The result offers a careful glimpse of reverse socialisation: children changing parents as parents raise children.
