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Odds and ends: Evidence-based parenting articles by Gwen Dewar

If you’re looking for evidence-based information about parenting, you can browse my site by selecting one of the topics on the menu bar on the far left. You can also try using this site’s search engine.

But some of my parenting articles are hard to find. That’s because they’re about quirky subjects —like Santa Claus— or because I simply haven’t had time to index them yet. There are also articles I’ve written for other websites.

So here is a guide to my “odds and ends”--miscellaneous articles that you might otherwise overlook.

Biology and evolution

• Does morning sickness protect the fetus?

• Why don't humans eat their placentas?

• The evolution of fatherhood

• Sexy dads

• Partible paternity in the Amazon

• Snobby monkeys and mean moms

• Moms have always needed childcare help

• When "daycare" was run by kids

• Happy faces trigger endocanniboids...if you have the right genes

• What can the capuchin monkey teach us about kids?

• Fear of snakes: An evolutionary perspective on the way kids learn

Education

• Should kids be grouped by age?

• Be permissive, raise a scientist (editorial)

• Homework for young children: Is it justified?

• Preventing summer learning loss

Ethics

• How child labor made a "race" of pymgies

Fun stuff

• Is the Easter Bunny a fraud? Does Santa make kids gullible?

• Contagious yawning: Can little kids "catch" other people's yawns?

Health topics

• ADHD in children: Are millions being unnecessarily medicated?

• Do video games cause attention problems in children?

• Stressful, unsupportive mates can shorten your life

• Too young for high-intensity sports and injuries?

• Obese kids and AD-36: Is obesity caused by a virus?

• Low vitamin D levels trigger early puberty in girls?

• Health benefits of religion: Are nonreligious parents shortchanging their kids?

• Chlorinated swimming pools, asthma, and DNA damage: A guide for the science-minded parent

Mistakes in the media

• The sexualization of girls: Is the popular culture harming our kids?

• Adolescence doesn’t end until you’re 28?!

• Sperm, promiscuity, and bad blogs

• Claims about "inborn" math ability are bogus




Praise for Parenting Science

"[A] welcome antidote to the opinion dressed up as science that parents are constantly fed. Tear up your parenting books and get yourselves over there..."

- Charles Fernyhough, Ph.D., developmental psychologist and author of A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind



"...[O]ne of the most awesome websites I’ve seen in a long time…In addition to being helpful to academic parents, I see this site being useful in anthropology courses on human sexuality, life history, parenting, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary psychology, etc. Please check it out!"

- Julienne Rutherford, Ph.D., University of Illinois biological anthropologist and founder of the Biological Anthropology Developing Investigators Troop (BANDIT)


"I came across a great website run by Gwen Dewar, one I wish it had been available to me when my children were young. I hope everyone interested in math and kids will look at In search of the smart preschool board game and other pages on this site."

- Bill Marsh, Ph.D., in mathematics and author of MathInking, a blog about teaching math


"Gwen Dewar, a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, analyzes the latest research about parenting and kids. Check it out. You might even learn something about evolutionary psychology, or brain chemistry, or stereotyping."

- Polly Palumubo, Ph.D., psychologist and author of the blog, Momma Data: Children’s Healthy in the Media