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Bridging Research & Practice in Child Psychology
Explore insights from parenting challenges to cutting-edge research... making psychology accessible, practical, and evidence-based.
Still Summer, Already Anxious
Helping Your Child Stay Present Now While Getting Ready for School There's a strange stretch every August where summer hasn't ended, but it isn't really summer anymore either. The pool days are still happening, but somewhere in the background, school supply lists are circulating, and bus schedules are landing in your inbox. For a lot of kids, this in-between window (technically still vacation, but with school unmistakably on the horizon) is when back-to-school anxiety actuall
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The Difference Between Dysregulation and Defiance in Kids
Why two behaviors that look almost identical need completely different responses... and how to tell them apart. Your child is on the floor of the grocery store, screaming, and you have about four seconds to decide what's happening. Is this a kid testing limits because the checkout line is boring and whining has worked before? Or is this a kid whose nervous system has genuinely gone offline, who can't hear you, and who isn't choosing this? Those two situations can look almost
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Getting Kids to Listen...and Getting Kids to Open Up
If you've ever repeated yourself five times before your child finally looked up from their tablet, or asked “how was school?” and gotten a one-word “fine” in return, you're not doing anything wrong. You're running into one of the most common (and most fixable) communication gaps between parents and kids. The good news: the way we talk and the way we listen are both skills. They can be practiced, adjusted, and improved... and small shifts in how a conversation starts can chang
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