Developmental Psychology Viewpoint
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Three Wishes for my Daughters
Posted on September 20, 2011 with no commentsI appreciate my friend Sophia Dembling and the folks at PsychCentral for allowing me to blog about my experience of blending motherhood with developmental psychology. I was a guest blogger today for the column "Real World Research," and it was great fun putting this post together. I hope you'll enjoy it!
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How do you help a child cope with death when they don’t know what death is?
I’ve been thinking about death a lot lately—or, more accurately, how young children reason about and process death. A few recent experiences with our preschooler, along with an anecdote I...
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My daughter, the mean girl
I’ll be honest, as much as I’m fascinated by relational aggression, I’ve always focused on the more sophisticated, brutal social attacks that teenagers engage in while ignoring the simpler aggressive...
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Wishing your child were more popular? Read this first.
I'm borrowing way too much from this blog at PsychCentral, but hey, this post promotes our recent book on popularity. It's also an excellent quick-and-dirty primer...
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