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11 Old-School, Purposely Non-Digital Ways To Bond With Your Kids On Your Next Family Vacation In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming.	The Terrible, Wonderful Summer Vacation: How This Mom Learned to Not Just Survive Having Her Kids Home Over the Summer, But to L In a way, summer vacation reminds me of giving birth. When it's over, I forget the difficult parts and look forward to the next one.
Summertime Connection: This Mom's 3 Tips for a Fun, Yet Stress-Free, Family Calendar Summertime can bring a variety of opportunities to connect with our children and enjoy new experiences together. Here are three ways my family deepens our connections with one another during the summertime...	Summer Vacation Offers Opportunity For Deepening Relationships With Our Children I loved my childhood summer vacations, but what is it like for parents?
For This Mom, Planning Ahead Makes For a More Enjoyable Summer One of the best things about summer vacation for children who attend traditional school is that there is no fixed schedule.	Challenging the Status Quo: This Brazilian Dad Encourages Fathers Everywhere to Nurture Their Kids This Father's Day, we meet Thiago Queiroz, a dad who has been absolutely on fire for supporting other fathers in his native Brazil since his oldest of 4 children was born a decade ago.
Nurturings Tip: How to Reconnect After the Work Day Reconnecting after being apart, whether for an hour or during the workday, is essential for families.	The Myth of Balance: How This Mom Created More Time With Her Kids Some days, I feel like I do a pretty good job of balancing my career, my family, and myself. Other days, it feels like I'm falling desperately behind and failing on all three counts.
Is Diaper Nostalgia a Thing? I thought I kept my car clean and tidy.	Why I’m OK If My Son Never Says “I Love You” My 9-year-old son has never said "I love you." I honestly never gave it a second thought until I realized I was being told "I love you" multiple times daily by my 5-year-old daughter.

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Parenting and Trajectories of Children's Maladaptive Behaviors: A 12-year Prospective Community Study

Luyckx, K., Tildesley, E. A., Soenens, B., Andrews, J. A., Hampson, S. E., Peterson, M., & Duriez, B. (2011). Parenting and trajectories of children's maladaptive behaviors: A 12-year prospective community study. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 40(3), 468-478.

Authoritative parenting—high on positive parenting and monitoring but low on inconsistent discipline—had the best long-term outcomes of all parenting styles.

Differential Susceptibility to Parenting and Quality Child Care

Pluess, M., & Belsky, J. (2010). Differential susceptibility to parenting and quality child care. Developmental Psychology, 46(2), 379-390.

High-quality parenting was predictive of greater academic and social skills for all children, but particularly children with a difficult temperament. In addition, high-quality non-parental child care predicted fewer behavioral problems in children with difficult temperaments.

Childhood Sleep Duration and Associated Demographic Characteristics in an English Cohort

Blair, P. S., Humphreys, J. S., Gringras, P., Taheri, S., Scott, N., Emond, A., ... & Fleming, P. J. (2012). Childhood sleep duration and associated demographic characteristics in an English cohort. Sleep, 35(3), 353-360.

More research is needed to identify what is normal when it comes to child sleep. Some of what is known is that children need longer nighttime sleep until about 9 years old. By school age, most children sleep through the night, but children up to 3 1/2 years old continue to wake at least once. Low birth-weight and pre-term infants sleep more. Infants of younger mother sleep more. All infants sleep longer at night, wake multiple times at night, and sleep longer daytime naps than young children who mostly stop taking naps by 5 years old. Girls sleep longer than boys. Children with siblings sleep less.

Parenting Styles, Parental Response to Child Emotion, and Family Emotional Responsiveness are Related to Child Emotional Eating

Topham, C. L., Hubbs-Tait, L., Rutledge, J. M., Page, M. C., Kennedy, T. S., Shriver, L. H., & Harrist, A. W. (2011). Parenting styles, parental response to child emotion, and family emotional responsiveness are related to child emotional eating. Appetite, 56(2), 261-264.

Child emotional eating is correlated with minimizing and non-reasoning, punitive parental responses, which are in line with authoritarian and permissive parenting styles but not authoritative styles.