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WEIRD cultures are Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. Us WEIRD adults get allergy, diabetes, arthritis, etc – and these are shaped by how we’re raised. Traditional cultures show us how to give children better adult health.
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Making children unfrustratable (part 2: optimising child frustration) (opens the original)
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Have you ever been somewhere so bright that closing your eyes doesn’t really seem to help that much? Eyes open: way way way too bright and everything’s kinda blue-white. Eyes closed: still way too bright, but now everything’s red.I opened my eyes again. A small group of roughly a thousand trillion photons that had spent 100,000 years finally finding their way out of our nearest thermonuclear furnace, and had then celebrated their hard-won freedom with an 8-minute joy-ride, lost control of the ve
How to reduce parental frustration [PODCAST] (opens the original)
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If you like to listen - hit play. If you prefer to read, click the transcript button top right on the web version.In this episode, Greg Dickens and I discuss recent news on how a child’s exposure to interparental violence is linked to their risk of cancer in adulthood. We talk about the effects of early life sleep deprivation and sugar restriction on the risk of dementia, and then review a paper on the skills required for children to stay home alone. We then talk about frustration tolerance - wh
Making children unfrustratable (Part 1: reducing parental frustration) (opens the original)
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The light of my headtorch flicked from tree to tree along the riverbank. Occasionally, it would pick out the glowing pink eyes of a nightjar, the tiny yellow eyes of a frog, or the opal eyes of a tree boa. But we were looking for the big fiery eyes of caiman.Suddenly, the bowman, Patrick, tensed and pointed. Vincent, the steersman changed course and accelerated towards the bank, trying to scare the caiman up the bank rather than underwater.But, despite Patrick’s repeated reminders
Why do toddlers need to fall over so much? [PODCAST] (opens the original)
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If you like to listen - hit play. If you prefer to read, click the transcript button top right on the web version.In this episode, Greg Dickens and I discuss recent news on how outdoor play in preschoolers predicts their risk of mental health problems in later childhood. We talk about biological aging in different generations, and how that influences people’s risk of disease. We then talk about toddlers falling over - why it’s so vital for body and brain health and why toddlers don’t fall down a
Don't catch your toddler before they fall! (most of the time...) (opens the original)
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The clamour of children’s voices faded into the distance as my elder two children disappeared with their friend to fact-check the rumours of there being a snake in the library. Other than the droning of the bugs, the only noise remaining in the palm-thatched benab (it’s like a hall, but doesn’t have any walls), was the shrieking, laughing and occasional sobbing of a pair of two-year-olds playing with a ball. One was mine, the other belonged to our neighbour in the village. His eight-year-old sis
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