Recent highlights
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On Saturday, October 18th, folks across the United States will gather in a demonstration of peace, love, and unity.We come from different walks of life, and many of us favor different ideas about politics and religion. But what we share far outweighs these differences! -
Friends and fellow families from every walk of life and political persuasion: Please join the peaceful, mass movement to defend democracy. -
Parents have power when we stand together. Put pressure on elected officials to do their jobs, and enforce democracy and rule of law. -
When kids show signs of toilet training readiness, they may learn toileting skills more quickly. But some signs are more helpful than others. -
STEM books for kids? Math and science games? Resources to get kids thinking, coding, building? Recommendations from Parenting Science. -
As Americans struggle with a broken health care system, most folks agree: Some things should not be determined by the whims of profiteers.
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