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When kids pursue activities because they’re interested in them, they’re more likely to stick with and enjoy them than if their pursuit is driven by external pressure to perform from parents ...
As a parenting expert, I know instilling resilience in kids by letting them fail is important. To help them fail, parents should stop problem-solving for them. Parents should also ensure their ...
A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher, for thirty-six years he has been on a mission to show how poetry can take on a bigger role within the teaching of reading and the ...
The term resilience gradually changed definitions and meanings, from a personality trait [4] [5] to a dynamic process of families, individuals, and communities. [2] [6] Family resilience emerged as scholars incorporated together ideas from general systems theory perspectives on families, family stress theory, and psychological resilience ...
Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds. Play is often interpreted as frivolous; yet the player can be intently focused on their objective, particularly when play is structured and goal ...
A 2005 study at the Stanford University School of Medicine measured creativity by showing children figures of varying complexity and symmetry and asking whether they like or dislike them. The study showed for the first time that a sample of children who either have or are at high risk for bipolar disorder tend to dislike simple or symmetric ...
The single best gift you could ever give your kid, says the psychologist, "is the ability to handle hard things.”
Developmental psychologists who study children use a number of research methods. For example, they make observations of children in natural settings such as preschools [176] and engage them in experimental tasks. [177] Such tasks often resemble specially designed games and activities that are both enjoyable for the child and scientifically useful.