Debunking Parenting Myths
Reut Avinun, PhDScience-backed parenting research by Reut Avinun, PhD — debunking myths on screen time, breastfeeding, sleep training, child development & more.
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To mark breastfeeding week: Does Breastfeeding Make Children Smarter?
I'll start with the bottom line. Breastfeeding is great for those who are able and want to do it, but in the modern world, it is very unlikely to make or break your child's future. Most breastfeeding research is not causal and tends to over...
“90% of the Brain Is Built by Age 5” Is a Misleading Slogan
I came across this claim in an ad for a course about the biology of parenting: “The brain is 90% built by age 5. What happens now designs everything.”
Reading it really annoyed me. This is exactly the kind of oversimplified fear-mongering...
The Evolution of Parenting: What Research Reveals About How Families Have Changed
Parenting is a dynamic process that evolves over time in response to various societal shifts. Researchers have examined how mothers’ and fathers’ individualism, collectivism, and parenting attitudes have changed, revealing interesting trend...
Intergenerational child abuse: It's more complicated than “abuse begets abuse"
“Abuse begets abuse.” It’s one of those phrases that gets repeated so often that many people assume it means that there’s a deterministic pathway from abuse to further abuse. Hollywood certainly seems to think that’s the case.
A new meta-a...
Why a Warm Parent and a Smiling Child Don’t Automatically Prove Parenting Success
One of the most persistent mistakes in parenting discourse is also one of the most intuitive: we see a cheerful, easy child with a warm, engaged parent and assume we’re looking at proof that the parenting “worked.”
But that conclusion does...
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Researcher & science writer debunking parenting myths. PhD in Child Development & Behavior Genetics. I help parents cut through media hype with evidence-based research.
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