Positive Parenting Overcomes the Effects of Poverty on Brain Development

New research shows that positive parenting can overcome the
effects of poverty on healthy brain development in
adolescents. In a
report
published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Brody and colleagues described a neuroimaging study
demonstrating that supportive parenting prevented the reduced
growth of certain areas of the brain that occurred as a response to
living in poverty.…

Fables and Folklore: Stories that Teach Kids Lessons

A guest blog written by Rachelle Wilber, a freelance writer.

Today, fairy tales may just be something your kids want to hear over and over again before bedtime, but modern stories that are beloved by children like the wildly acclaimed “Frozen” can be traced back thousands of years.…