Category: parenting
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Never Show Your Kids Weakness & Other Parenting Myths Debunked
Edith Pritchett/The Guardian Is screen time really that bad? Should you swear in front of your kids? And is it possible to undo your mistakes? Experts tackle the big parenting questions of our time Don’t post pictures of your children online.. FALSE There’s a difference, says the psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, author of What Your Teen Is Trying…
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Everyday Philosophy Should I Hide My Wild Past From My Parents
Adobe Stock / Big Think I was really taken with this question because I’ve experienced the same thing, but in reverse. I asked my dad three years ago to write an autobiography — an in-house thing for Thomsons to read down the generations. He took to the idea and took to writing. A week later,…
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Why Couples Are Choosing Cohabitation Over Marriage
Naomi Elliott for Vox After about two years of dating, Matt Garville, 38, made some space in his closet for his girlfriend, Aloria Rucker, 31. At the time, Rucker was living with a roommate in Brooklyn but spending most nights with Garville at his roommate-less apartment in Hoboken, he says, so the move made sense.…
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Parents React To New Study That Finds Surprising Links Between Having Children and Living a Longer Life
iStock Researchers determined that having children was associated with a greater likelihood of surviving to the age of 76. “One thing that is relatively clear is that having children is more beneficial to longevity than not having children at all,” study author Professor Jianzhi Zhang said. “What we measured was the probability of living to the age…