Time’s controversial breastfeeding cover gave further ammunition to the ongoing mom wars, but did you know there are dad wars, too? It’s true; 16 percent of American preschoolers are cared for by stay-at-home dads, and many of these dads complain that they’re plagued by assumptions that they’re not cut out for the job or that [...]
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: American dads, Australian dads, breastfeeding, dad, dad wars, fatherhood, fathers, Filipino men, mom wars, moms, mothers, parenting trends, parents, Time breastfeeding | Leave A Comment »
We already knew women were better educated than men; now, it seems they’re more ambitious, too, with two-thirds saying they’re chasing a high-paying career, compared with 59 percent of men. Don’t think, though, that means more women are giving up on hopes of motherhood: Six in 10 say being a good parent is one of [...]
Aug 08, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Insights, Marketing, Trends | Tags: ambition, attachment parenting, career trends, college corporate trends, education, female, feminism, mommy guilt, online freelancers, parenting, parenting trends, The Conflict How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, women, women trends, work survey | Leave A Comment »
In most countries, approximately half of parents say they have hacked into their teenager’s Facebook account; in the U.S., 60 percent of parents fess up to it, while in New Zealand, 44 percent say they’ve done it. In most cases, American parents go to greater lengths to keep tabs on a teen: 75 percent stay [...]
Jun 07, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: adolescents, America, apps, digital footprint, digital music downloading, energy monitor, France, GPS tracker, Japan, New Zealand, parental snooping, parenting trends, pornography, privacy, privacy apps, Safely Phone Controls, safety apps, sexting, social media trends, social networking trends, TeddyCam, teenage trends, teenagers, United Kingdom | Leave A Comment »
Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Elizabeth Banks all did it. Used a gestational surrogate, that is. But more and more non-celebrities are turning to surrogacy, too: More than 1,400 babies were born this way in the U.S. in 2010, though many more go unreported. The uptick in surrogacies has created the need for lawyers [...]
Jun 05, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Trends, Youth | Tags: baby trends, birthing news, birthing trends, Elizabeth Banks, gender reveal parties, gestational surrogate, motherhood, Nicole Kidman, Oxford University, parenting trends, Sarah Jessica Parker, surrogate birth, surrogate compensation, surrogate lawyers, surrogate mothers | Leave A Comment »
Lots of us remember grade school for the notes we passed under desks and the secrets we whispered on the playground … to best friends. But some English schools are adopting “best friend bans” to save their students from the pain of “breaking up” with a friend later on. This kind of practice is redolent [...]
May 22, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends, Youth | Tags: best friends, childhood, children, education, education trends, elementary school, friendship, friendship trends, helicopter parents, parenting, parenting trends, psychology, psychology trends, smartphones, Social Media, text messaging | Leave A Comment »
Not so long ago, if we wanted our children to get ahead, we’d see to it that they skipped a grade. But more of today’s children, in America especially, are being held back so as to have a competitive advantage over their classmates. “60 Minutes” reports that nearly a quarter of some kindergarten classrooms are [...]
Apr 17, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Trends, Youth | Tags: "60 Minutes", California, CBS, child development, children, early childhood, education trends, helicopter parents, hyperparenting, kindergarten, Kindergarten Readiness Act, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, parenting trends, redshirting | Leave A Comment »
In case you needed more parenting-related pressure laid on your shoulders, a recent study reveals that a child’s hippocampus—the region of the brain that helps manage stress and strengthen memory and learning—can be up to 10 percent larger if his mother is patient and encouraging. The modern understanding of child development is in stark contrast [...]
Mar 07, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: America, Beijing, child development, children, Facebook, France, hippocampus, parenting, parenting trends, psychology, research, Social Media, tiger mom | Leave A Comment »
