A patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million…
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KidsParent Resources
In 2018, cockatoos in the suburbs of Sydney began flipping open household wheelie bins by wedging their beaks under the lid and walking sideways along the rim, and the technique spread bird-to-bird across 44 suburbs in two years, mapped by University of Sydney researchers
In the summer of 2018, in three quiet suburbs on the southern edge of Sydney,…
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KidsLifestyle
The truest signs your partner has a heart of gold are quieter than grand gestures: research points to two, whether they genuinely appreciate you rather than take you for granted, and whether they give based on your needs without keeping a running score
A heart of gold is one of those phrases we feel more easily than we…
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Drawing IdeasKids
In 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a mixture of rubber and sulfur onto a hot stove and discovered vulcanisation — the same cross-linking that now makes the rubber erasers on a child’s pencil firm enough to lift graphite without smearing it into the paper.
In January 1839, in a small workshop in Woburn, Massachusetts, Charles Goodyear dropped a lump…
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KidsParent Resources
In a 2006 study, 18-month-old toddlers helped a stranger who needed assistance across most of ten tasks without being asked or rewarded, but a 2008 follow-up found material rewards for helping later reduced how often toddlers helped
People are often described as deeply selfish as if it were a fixed trait, something…
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KidsParent Resources
Two very different bodies of research on trusting your gut arrived at a similar conclusion: physical, pre-conscious signals can guide people toward better choices before they can explain why, but only in stable, familiar situations, not in unpredictable ones where confident intuition is often just wrong
“Go with your gut” is advice that can mean two very different things depending on…
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BlogKids
The grandparents children remember most warmly often weren’t the ones with the most to give, they were the ones who never seemed to be somewhere else while they were with you
Try this. Close your eyes and picture the grandparent you loved most, if you had…
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BlogKids
Research suggests parental expectations begin shaping children’s self-concept by age 4 — before most people are old enough to have chosen it themselves
A body of research in developmental psychology has built up gradually around an uncomfortable observation:…
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BlogKids
People who become harder to please in their seventies often aren’t getting more difficult, they’re tired of pretending that the small thoughtless things didn’t bother them when they were thirty, and the tiredness is, in most cases, what the family is reading as crankiness
There is a particular cultural script for how people change in their seventies. The script…
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BlogKids
I’m 38 and I have started to dread the question ‘how are you’ — not because I am doing badly, but because the honest answer would take longer than anyone in my life has time for, and the short answer has started to feel like a small lie I tell several times a day to people who would be horrified if I told them the truth
I’ve developed a quiet dread of three of the most harmless words in the language.…
