My husband and I are incredibly lucky to be able to give our son what he needs and often what he wants, and we are raising him in a wonderful town in which many families do the same. Yet he’s growing up in a bubble, and that terrifies me. If he never truly struggles for things—important ...
Date Posted: December 10, 2013
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Across three studies, Anouk Festjens and her colleagues led over a hundred female undergrads to believe they were taking part in customer research for a clothing manufacturer. The women handled a pair of men's boxer shorts or a t-shirt and rated it ...
Dec 10
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Almost every language in the world uses an expression similar to ‘hurt feelings’ to describe the emotional response we have to being rejected. The question is, why are rejections so painful?
Among the various kinds of psychological injuries we ...
Dec 9
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Research from North Carolina State University shows that working a job that doesn’t keep 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours can hurt the relationships between parents and adolescents, increasing the likelihood that children will engage in delinquent ...
Dec 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural wiring of men and women that's lending credence to some commonly-held beliefs about ...
Dec 7
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Depression is a serious mental illness that has many negative consequences for sufferers. But depression among pregnant women may also have an impact on their developing babies.
Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk of developing ...
Dec 7
Categories: Depression, Pregnancy & Birthing
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Even with today’s technology, it still takes both a male and a female to make a baby. But is it important for both parents to raise that child? Many studies have outlined the value of a mother, but few have clearly defined the importance of a ...
Dec 6
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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While a majority of children in Singapore have better material comforts than their counterparts elsewhere, studies on their mental health are not so encouraging.
When some international surveys [read Gallup] proclaim that Singapore is the least ...
Dec 6
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Sleep is an evolutionary paradox. In pre-historic times, periods of sleep would have been windows of opportunity for predators and periods of susceptibility to dangerous natural calamities. The chances of losing life for early humans during sleep ...
Dec 5
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Fear of being single is a meaningful predictor of settling for less in relationships among both men and women, a new University of Toronto study has found. The results are published in the December edition of the Journal of Personality and Social ...
Dec 5
Categories: Fear, Relationships & Marriage
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You are hardly alone if you believe that humanity is divided into two great camps: the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers — those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. For years, an industry of books, tests ...
Dec 5
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In the fall of 1992, a twentysomething college dropout and former juvenile offender named John Carmack was hard at work in Mesquite, Texas, on a new concept for a video game. It would merge the first-person perspective of a game like Myst with the ...
Dec 4
Categories: Addictions
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Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as "indiscriminate friendliness," characterized by an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers.
Dec 4
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
GOThe country’s first integrated mental health information system was launched Monday in a bid to address effectively the needs of patients suffering from mental illness. The creation of an information system was prompted by a campaign of Janssen ...
Dec 4
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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A single dose of the hormone oxytocin, delivered via nasal spray, has been shown to enhance brain activity while processing social information in children with autism spectrum disorders, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study ...
Dec 3
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child Development
GOWatch this interesting animation on how we start quantifying objects from 5 months and the way it affects our spending habits as ...
Dec 3
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