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parenting
5 articles on parenting, newest first.
A Parent's Guide to the Kindergarten-to-A-Level JourneyWhat your job is at each stage, and (more usefully) what it stops being. The commonest mistake is running stage two parenting during stage five.Read the article →
The One Question That Doubles What a Young Child LearnsIt is three letters long, it costs nothing, it works on every subject, and most of us stop asking it the moment the child gets the answer right.Read the article →
Screen Time Under Six: What the Research Actually SaysThe honest summary is not "screens are bad" or "screens are fine". It is that almost everything depends on what is on the screen and whether an adult is sitting there, and the size of that second effect is startling.Read the article →
How to Judge a Learning App for a Four-Year-Old: Seven TestsEvery app in the education category says it is educational. Seven checks, none of which take more than a minute, will tell you whether this one is built for your child or for your attention.Read the article →
Why a Child's Engagement With Digital Devices Matters, and Where Parents Should LookChildren will spend their working lives with screens. The question was never whether they use devices, but whether they learn to use them as tools or get used by them. Here is what to watch.Read the article →Related topics