How does a nice, relaxing massage sound right about now? Oh sorry, not for you. For your kid.
Category: Research For ‘Rents
using psychology studies to pump up your parenting skills
Summer is ending and kids are getting back to school. We know that lots of you are already making an effort to make the most of this season’s remaining sunshine by spending as much time as you can outside. But in case you needed another excuse to head outdoors…
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It’s family vacation time!
The Doctor and the Dad (and the Daughter and the Son) are on vacation this week. And let us tell you, it is awesome! If you and your brood haven’t taken a big, relaxing break together lately, you really owe it to yourselves to schedule one. Research shows that family vacations contribute positively to family bonding, […]
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Happy parents give a s***
Over the past few weeks we’ve given you some cool, research-based tips for pumping up your parental happiness, like this one and this one and this one too. Today we’re giving you one more tip…because giving makes us happy! You know how it feels to give someone a really great gift? You’ve gone out of your […]
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Magic Mom & Dad Moments
This is our third in a series of “Doctor and Dad” posts about research-based tips that can help make you the happiest parent possible. Check out our first and second articles here. When you’re a hardworking, always-doing-something-for-somebody-else-but-never-for-yourself parent, magic moments can seem pretty rare. But when they do happen, they’re awesome.
This is our second in a series of “Doctor and Dad” posts all about research-based tips that can help make you the happiest parent possible. Check out our first article here. They say that money can’t buy happiness. But according to current research, it looks like they might be wrong. When it comes to spending […]
Sometimes when things are at their worst – the kids woke you up extra extra early this morning, every attempt at a conversation turns into a tantrum instead, the house looks like a tornado is currently storming through it, and you’re starting to think that the stain you found on your shirt sleeve might not […]