A body of research in developmental psychology has built up gradually around an uncomfortable observation:…
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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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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.…
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The child who never caused problems didn’t have fewer needs — they learned that having needs was the surest way to become inconvenient
There’s usually one in every family. The quiet one. The one who never asked for…
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Boomers who have a hard time letting their adult children make mistakes aren’t always controlling — sometimes the instinct is older than that, rooted in a time when a single wrong turn really did close a lot of doors
There is a particular kind of warning that traveled through mid-twentieth century American households as…
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Your parenting style may be the reason your child apologizes before they speak — and developmental research on authoritative parenting explains exactly where they learned it
I used to start sentences with sorry. Not after mistakes. Before them. Before anything, really.…
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Research suggests each pregnancy reshapes the brain differently, and the second one may make mothers sharper at tracking more than one thing at once
She was halfway through telling me about a documentary, then she stopped. The word she…
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Being a good father has almost nothing to do with what you teach your kids and almost everything to do with what they watch you do when you think nobody’s paying attention
Young children can’t talk yet. They can’t walk. They have no idea what their parents…
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Behavioral scientists found that the children who turned out the most stable weren’t the ones with the happiest parents — they were the ones whose parents named their own bad moods out loud instead of making the child guess
I lost my temper at bedtime last week. Milo wouldn’t put on his pajamas, Ellie…
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My friend Sarah made her closest adult friend at twenty-three, standing in a laundromat at…
