Millennial parents are actively seeking out toys, books and movies to educate their children about life and teach them values that align with their own.
Low birth rates aren’t just a potential economic crisis. They can tell a deeply personal story about women failing to reach their goals for motherhood.
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
If you feel burping is helpful to your baby, then keep doing what you’re doing. If trying to burp your baby after every feed is stressing you or your baby out, then you don’t have to keep doing it.
Despite consistent messaging ‘we all have a role to play’ when it comes to stopping violence against women, actual guidance on what parents should do can be difficult to find.
Most kids associate sports coaches with men, but they should be coached by women as well. There’s no quick fix to change attitudes and address biases, though.
In the space of three days, there have been two devastating knife attacks. Your child may have seen these on the news or social media. Or they might be hearing about it from friends.
Attachment theory is the notion that in the first year of life, the ways in which a parent and caregiver respond to a child’s needs shape a child’s expectation of relationships across their lifespan.
Parents and other supportive adults can learn to recognize young people’s symptoms of disordered eating, which is a spectrum of unhealthy eating patterns and behaviour.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa