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Turning the “Motherhood Penalty” into a “Breadwinner Bonus”
Working mothers are often offered lower salaries and fewer leadership opportunities compared to working fathers, but this penalty can be reduced by framing women as “breadwinners.”
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Featured articles: “Why Don’t Psychologists Know More About Childbirth?” and “People Need People: Why Close Relationships Predict Health”
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Why parenting tweenage children is more stressful than the terrible twos
Independent: The exhausted, sleep-deprived mothers of babies and toddlers may appear to be grappling with the most stressful period of their child’s lives, but experts believe it is in fact the ‘perfect storm’ of the tween
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One Mistake That Can Affect Your Child’s Weight
Real Simple: Parents who think their children are overweight may trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy, according to a new analysis of two decade-long studies. Kids whose parents considered them chunky at age 4 or 5 tended
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Children Gain More Weight When Parents See Them as ‘Overweight’
Children whose parents considered them to be ‘overweight’ gained more weight over the following decade compared with those whose parents thought they were ‘normal weight,’ according to data from two nationally representative studies.
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How to Help Kids Learn to Love Giving
The Huffington Post: During the holidays, opportunities abound to help kids understand why and how to help people in need, with food drives proliferating and countless organizations making pitches for end-of-year donations. And there’s scientific
