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According to a study commissioned by CNN, called Being Thirteen. “42 percent reported having a serious conflict with someone online at least monthly,” says Robert Faris, Ph.D., a sociologist at the University of California Davis who worked with CNN on the study. “And the majority of them said it was with friends  …  and we’re not talking […]

A major new study from the University of California, Irvine, found today’s mothers spend twice as long with their kids and fathers four times as long compared to 50 years ago. Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former Stanford dean and the author of “How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success,” believes that […]

According to a new study out of Spain published in the Annals of Neurology, kids who play video games much more than an hour a day may experience behavior problems, while kids who limit gaming time to an hour or two a week may experience cognitive benefits such as faster responses to visual cues: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-videogaming-children-brains-idUSKCN11L2PN http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.24745/abstract  

An interview with Robert LeVine, author of Do Parents Matter? Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight and American Families Should Just Relax http://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-things-american-parents-get-dead-wrong-about-raising-kids-2016-09-14?siteid=rss https://www.amazon.com/Do-Parents-Matter-Japanese-Siblings/dp/1610397231

A heartfelt account of one child’s struggle with anxiety: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/13/478834629/for-kids-anxiety-about-school-can-feel-like-being-chased-by-a-lion