Index to All Posts on "NurtureShock"
This is our nearly complete list of columns - our NurtureShock column at Newsweek, our features for New York Magazine, our Social Studies columns for Time, and our Social Studies blog.
Our Newsweek columns
(a * denotes a post that is particularly popular or controversial)
Our Newsweek columns
- Dear Readers/ NurtureShock Last Post for Newsweek
- Some Kids Are Never Spanked – Do They Turn Out Better?
- The Sorry State of In-Home Day Care (guest post by Julia M. Smith)
- The Truth About Lie-Detection – What Works And What Doesn't
- Should You Tell A Kid To Lie, If He Didn't Like His Christmas Gift?
- A Failure to Communicate? Parents Don't Know What Their Kid's Talking About 76% of the Time
- Smart People Gesture More When They Talk–So Will Kids Be Smarter if They Gesture?
- Privileged Kids Aren't In Peril – They're Just More Likely To Be Popular
- Shouldn't We Think About the Effect of Praise and Motivation When Assessing Kids Too?
- Santa's a Health Menace? Media Everywhere Are Falling for It—But the Study Was Meant as a Joke
- Can You Never Tell a Child She’s Smart?
- New Research: Taking the SAT in a Crowded Room Means Lower Scores
- This is Your Brain on a Test
- The Downside of Always Telling Kids to Work Harder
- Is the Brain Like a Muscle, Really?
- New Research: $13 Christmas gifts = 13 point gain in kids’ IQ
- New Research: Blaming Others Is Contagious
- Do Your Kids Know How to Fight?
- Parents Wait Too Late to Talk to Kids About Sex
- The Rocky Science of Good Marriages
- Why Glee's Losers and Mean Girls Are So True to Life
- The Skinny on Princesses, Part Two
- Do Disney Princesses Make Young Girls Obsessed With Thinness?
- How Accurate Is Teens' Insistence That "Everyone Else Is Doing It"?
- What Are 'Good Risks' for Maturing Children?
- The Best Thing for a Baby's Colic: Treating the Parent's Nerves (guest post by Tony Dokoupil)
- Why Counting Blessings Is So Hard for Teenagers
- New Estimates on Kids' TV Watching–It's Much More than We Knew
- How Not to Helicopter
- What Do Preschools Have in Common with Bridges and Airports?
- At What Age Do You No Longer Have to Check your Children’s Homework?
- Is Fantasy Too Uncool for Middle Childhood?
- Kids' Food Allergies are Skyrocketing – Is the Spike Real?
- What If Colleges Had Lower Standards for Boys to Achieve Gender Balance?
- A Cure for ADHD?
- Why Teens Care So Much About Clothes
- Does a Psychology of Honor Lead Shooters to Pull the Trigger?
- Don’t Blame it on the Hormones
- Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? (guest post by Dave Cullen)
- Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today
- Responses to Post on US School Kids Doing Better
- Can Happiness and Parenting Coexist?
- US School Kids Are Doing Better Than Ever – But You Never Hear It
- Why Tarantulas Can Seem So Scary
- Is the Candy Witch Coming to Your House?
- Why Masked Costumes Lead to More Tricks and More Treats
- Are Disney’s Current Claims for Baby Einstein Any Better?
- Baby Einstein is Dead! Long Live Baby Einstein!
- Why Private Schools are Missing the Best Kids
- In Defense of Children Behaving Badly
- A Conversation on Teaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom
- Mike Lanza: Emotional Intelligence is Better Learned Outdoors Than in Classrooms
- How Biased Science led to Emotional Intelligence Curriculum in all UK Schools
- Should Socio-Emotional Learning Be Taught In Schools? Part 1
- Daniel Goleman Defends Emotional Intelligence
- Questions for Emotional Intelligence's Daniel Goleman
- Daniel Goleman Responds to Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- Introducing Guest Columnist Daniel Goleman
- Are Good Deeds a License to Misbehave?
- Patterns in Pattern-Seeking
- What Results Should We Expect From Education Reform?
- Motivation and Flow: The Teenager Edition
- How Long Does Your Child Play With His Favorite Toy?
- Leading Psychologists Reveal Some of Their Own Inner Demons
- Is The Science of NurtureShock Just A Fad?
- Playing the “Conditional Love” Card
- Are Time-outs for Tots Conditional Love?
- Today: Po Bronson on NPR's 'Fresh Air'
- Clarifying the Science of Building Early Language Skills
- What is Mature, Extended, Pretend Play – Exactly?
- Middle School, the Big Fishbowl
- Does Labeling Bias as "Bullying" Hide the Real Problem?
- Teens Who Feel More Peer Pressure Turn Out Better, Not Worse
- High School Grades vs. The SAT vs. Family Income
- Is 'Emotional Intelligence' Real?
- In Defense of the SAT
- How We Got Pulled Into a War Between Rush Limbaugh and Maureen Dowd
- The Problem with Teaching Kids about Stranger Danger
- The Social Hierarchy of Preschoolers
- Is Discussing Race With a 3-Year-Old Too Young?
- By Third Grade, Black Students Who Self Segregate Are More Popular
- Can Extracurricular Activities Solve the Self-segregation Problem?
- Tell Them, 'You're Acting Obama' (A personal essay)
- The White-Nonwhite Gap in Racial Acceptance
- NurtureShock Cover Story for Newsweek – "Is Your Baby Racist?"
- The Red-Herring Solution for Redshirting Kindergartners
- Should Children Redshirt Kindergarten?
- Does Being Older Help Your Child Win a Gifted Slot?
- Why Bike Helmets Require Us to Use Our Heads
- A Five-Minute Intelligence Test for Kids
- What Do Children Understand About God?
- Introduction to the NurtureShock Blog
Our New York features
- Learning to Lie
- Snooze or Lose: Can A Lack of Sleep Set Back Your Child's Cognitive Abilities?
- Sleep Sidebar: How To Get Kids to Sleep More
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids: The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids
- When Grown Kids Return Home
- Has Being Married Gone Out of Style?
- After the School Shootings: How to Heal When the Inexplicable Occurs
- Barbie to Baby Einstein: Supermom Lit Distorts Real Issues (print magazine version)
- Baby Einstein vs. Barbie: How Media Elitism Ignores the Problems of Typical American Families (Time.com version)
- Beware of Dubious Teaching Secrets: How a One-Percent Change Is Labelled the Answer to the Boy Crisis
- Bad News Comes in Small Bytes: Are We Forgetting How To Be Honest in Person?
- When Moms Are Gatekeepers
- Uncle Sam Wants You
- Will This Marriage Last?
- Just Sit Back and Relax/Why Do Americans Have to Work So Hard At Taking It Easy?
- Are Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue?
- Dear Graduates
- Are Stepparents Real Parents?
- A Father's Take on the Mommy Wars / Let's Have a Truce on Mother's Day
- Hasta Luego: How The Mexican Government Fails Its Poor
(a * denotes a post that is particularly popular or controversial)
- Learning to Lie
- "The One" – A Short Film by J.D. Beltran and Po Bronson
- AAAS Announces Winners of the 2007 Science Journalism Awards
- Po on "On Point"
- Naps And Other Make-Up Sleep
- One Real Cost We All Pay For Sleep-Deprivation
- Sleep Is For Wusses – An Idea Kids Are Learning All Too Well
- On the Question, "How Much Sleep Does My Child Actually Need?"
- Are the Hallmark Traits of Adolescence Just Symptoms of Sleep Deprivation?
- Sleep – Without Snooze, You Lose
- Today Show Segment Video Clip
- Results from Survey of Parenting Styles & Assumptions
- Council on Contemporary Families Honors Five Journalists for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues
- *Damage & Baggage - Does it Mean Your Relationships Are Doomed?
- *"You're Ruining My Self-Esteem!" - Part 3
- "You're Ruining My Self-Esteem!" - Part 2
- "You're Ruining My Self-Esteem!" - Part 1
- *On The Consequences of Self-Esteem & Innate Smarts
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 8 (tips on effective praise, con't)
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 7 (tips on effective praise, con't)
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 6 (tips on effective praise, con't)
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 5 (tips on effective praise)
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 4
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 3
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 2
- How Not To Talk To Your Kids - Part 1
- *Anderson Cooper's Private War
- This Week's Recommended Reading #24 (education-related articles)
- This Week's Recommended Reading #23
- No More Schooling While Drunk: New Jersey to Give Students Alcohol Tests
- President Bush's State of the Union Ignores Science At Your Children's Peril
- This Week's Recommended Reading #22
- Eddie and Leslie in Full-Day Kindergarten
- Contrary to What You've Heard, Libraries Aren't Dead
- Child Kidnapping - "The Missouri Miracle"
- This Week's Recommended Reading #21
- On MLK Day, Segregation and Integration in Schools
- Eddie and Leslie – A New Census Report on "A Child's Day"
- A Loss in Northern Ireland – An Appreciation
- Tutoring – A Story from the Front-lines of Kids and Education Today
- This Week's Recommended Reading #20
- The New Paperback Edition of WDILTP is Now in Stores
- Bad News Comes in Small Bytes: A Follow-Up That's No Lie... Well Maybe....
- The Boomerang Trend Disproven, Once and For All (Read our essay at Time.com)
- Immigration – Senator Biden Says the Answer is in Mexico
- Thanksgiving in New Orleans
- Has Being Married Gone Out of Style?
- Do Your Kids See You Much? Finally, the World is Listening to the Research
- School Shootings – A Lesson In Coping (Read Our Essay At Time.com)
- How Media Elitism Misrepresents the Problems of the Typical American Family, Part 2
- *How Media Elitism Misrepresents the Problems of the Typical American Family
- This Week's Recommended Reading #19
- This Week's Recommended Reading #18
- College Enrollment Projections - Will Your Kid Get In ... Anywhere?
- *Personal Choice vs. Social Responsibility - Should you represent? Or should you choose what's best for you?
- Does It Matter What Gender Your Child's Teacher Is? (Read our new piece at Time.com)
- Are Cities Or Suburbs a Better Place to Raise Kids?
- This Week's Recommended Reading #17
- Bad News Coming In Small Bytes: A Follow-Up
- This Week's Recommended Reading #16
- *Response to Forbes' "Don't Marry a Career Woman"
- Would your child be better off in a private school (even if it didn’t cost you a dime)? Some surprising findings say “no.”
- Parental Identity and Behavior – And the Difference Between the Two
- Uncle Sam Wants You! - A Follow-Up - Our Worst Fears Confirmed
- Ask Someone Who Knows: News from the ASA Convention (A Reflection)
Ask Someone Who Knows: News from the ASA Convention (Day Four)
Ask Someone Who Knows: News from the ASA Convention (Day Three)
Ask Someone Who Knows: News from the ASA Convention (Day Two)
Ask Someone Who Knows: News from the ASA Convention
Are We Forgetting How To Be Honest In Person? (Read Our New Piece at Time.com)
WDILTP wins Parenting Gold Award
When Moms Are Gatekeepers: Read Our New Piece At Time.com
This Week's Recommended Reading #15
Jobs! Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs! – Where To Find Opportunities in the Federal Government
Jobs! Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs! (Read Our New Piece at Time.com)
Gay Marriage – A Note On the Catholic View of Homosexuality
Gay Marriage - Short Crib Sheet to What's Going On in the News
This Week's Recommended Reading #14
And the Echo and Stentor Awards Go To . . . #3 - Will This Marriage Last? - How to Improve Your Odds
- Will This Marriage Last? - Who Wants Out and Why
- Will This Marriage Last? – Read Our New Piece at Time.com
- Will This Marriage Last? - Religion's Influence on Marriage and Divorce
- Will This Marriage Last - Independence is Revolutionary in a Marriage
- Will This Marriage Last - Is Divorce a Cultural Thing?
- Will This Marriage Last - Divorce in Your Past
- Will This Marriage Last? – The Effect of Kids On Marriage and Divorce
- * Will This Marriage Last? - Does Living Together Before Marriage Help the Odds?
- Will This Marriage Last? – Opposites Attract, But Do They Stay Married?
- Will This Marriage Last? – Marrying "At A Certain Age"
- Will This Marriage Last? – Introductory Post
- Further Commentary on our Time essay on Goofing Off, including a conversation with Tom Lutz, author of “Doing Nothing”
- A Different Sort of Father's Day News Story
- This Week's Recommended Reading #13
- For My UK Readers
- * Education Completion - To Whom It May Concern
- This Week's Recommended Reading (More) #12
- This Week's Recommended Reading #11
- Bush Return to Gay Marriage Debate Is Pathetic Political Ploy
- This Week's Recommended Reading #10
- Thanks To ABC For Prime Time Spelling Bee
- Are Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue? - Read our essay at Time.com
- High School Drop-Outs -- New Analysis Confirms Lower Drop-Out Rates
- This Week's Recommended Reading #9
- When to Get Married -- Choice or Circumstance?
- Read Our New Piece at Time.com - Dear Graduates
- Unmarried Couple Families -- Not Allowed to Live Together? (Part Two)
- This Week's Recommended Reading #8
- * Unmarried Couple Families -- Not Allowed to Live Together? (Part One)
- Are Stepparents "Real" Parents? - Read our post at Time.com
- Immigration -- The Mexican Government's Response to the Bush Speech
- Mom's "Salary" -- A Few Further Thoughts
- This Week's Recommended Reading #7
- A Father's Take on the Mommy Wars
- Is Wanting a Little Breathing Room from Your Loved Ones a New Notion?
- Dr. Phil Also Intervened - But he backs Diane Sawyer
- Read our essay at Time.com on the Mexican Government
- * Kyle's Family Speaks - When A Journalist Should Intervene, Part 2
- This Week's Recommended Reading #6
- "Mom's Salary" Report -- More Harm Than Good
- * Stepfamilies - Some Common Misconceptions
- This Week's Recommended Reading #5
- Immigration - How the Mexican Government is Creating a Parasitic Economy and Neglecting its Poor
- A Taboo Thought for a Pro-Immmigration Liberal to Have
- Save Diane Sawyer's Job
- Eduardo and Leslita -- Crosscultural Challenges in the Classroom
- When Leslie is About to Drop-Out: Is There Reliable Help?
- This Week's Recommended Reading #4
- Eddie and His Father - Stance Towards Authority
- * Helping Leslie -- How the Littlest Things Matter
- Eddie and Leslie In Elementary School
- Eddies vs. Leslies - Two Categories or Just Points on a Spectrum?
- * Is Your Child an "Eddie" or a "Leslie"? - Improving Academic Performance Right Now
- Exhibit A -- Just How Far Away School Reform Really Is
- "Stand Up" Ought to Sit Down
- This Week's Recommended Reading #3
- Drop-Outs -- A Need For Reform, Yes, But . . .
- High School Drop-Outs -- More About the Numbers
- High School Drop-Outs - Inside the Numbers
- Who Should Pay for School – The Student or the Parent?
- Drop-Out Rates - Are We Wrong? Maybe So.
- This Week's Recommended Reading #2
- And the Echo Award Goes To . . . .
- Who You Calling Lazy?
- * How Good News Becomes Bad News - The Five Asterisks
- Failure to Launch - Round Three
- The Week's Recommended Reading #1
- * When "New Dads" Are Thwarted by "Gatekeeper Moms"
- Optimist or Pessimist on Education? - What I'm Seeing
- Optimist or Pessimist? (Education) -- In this Week's News
- Optimist or Pessimist in Education -- What I've Seen
- Optimist or Pessimist? - The Future of Education
- Optimist or Pessimist? - The Basic Framework
- The Petrified Forest - SUMMARY POST
- * Wanted: A Few Good Sperm -- The Facts Egan Couldn't Find (Or Didn't Want to Share)
- The Petrified Forest – Why I Have Kids (When I Always Said I Wouldn’t)
- A Few Good Sperm – Thumbs Up from Me
- "Wanted: A Few Good Sperm" Needs More than A Little Common Sense
- The Myth of Childless by Choice - One Response from a Reader
- If a Tree Falls in a Petrified Forest ...
- A Boy Around Sisters
- Petrified Forest - A Geopolitical Perspective?
- * The Petrified Forest - Myths of "Childless by Choice"
- Where Do We Get This Stuff?
- Are Young Adults Today Failing to Grow Up?
- * Failure to Launch -- or Failure to Respect the Facts?
- The Petrified Forest - An Explanation
- Guess the 5 States
- Same Sex Couples -- "Brokeback Marriages" Are Indeed A Part of Modern Life
- Coming Attractions - Blog Topics in the Near Future
- Do Men Change Diapers - SUMMARY POST
- Do Men Change Diapers? - One of the original Mr. Moms
- Do Men in China Change Diapers?
- Do Men Change Diapers? - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Apparently Not.
- When Men Stay Home, Why are they there?
- Do Men Change Diapers? - Why Kids Think Dad (and Mom) is Great
- Do Men Change Diapers? – One Mom’s Impact
- Re: Are New Dads more likely to have grown up in divorced families?
- Do Men Change Diapers? - International Cultural Notions of Fatherhood
- Do Men Change Diapers? - Gender Differences When Work and Family Conflict
- Do Men Change Diapers? - Old Notions Still Trump New Values
- Do Men Change Diapers? - Are New Dads more likely to have grown up in Divorced Families?
- * Do Men Change Diapers? - Honey Dads and Bitter Moms
- Do Men Change Diapers? – Myths about the New Fatherhood
- Census Ending Important Surveys on Families
- It's a start
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