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Articles by Greater Good Magazine
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Teaching Emotional Intelligence
Six months ago a newspaper columnist and a sociologist met outside their daughters’ kindergarten classroom and started...
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Playground Heroes
Who can stop bullying? Not just parents and teachers, argue Ken Rigby and Bruce Johnson. Bullying in schools is now...
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The Gender of Video Games
In the next issue of Greater Good (Spring 2008), I have an essay on new research into video games. My focus is on the...
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Rubbing Off
Years before I became a child psychologist, I was a swim teacher and taught kindergarten. I remember working in the...
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Imaginary Friends
Marjorie Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends. She read my...
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Can We Play?
Play is essential to positive human development, but kids are playing less and less, says psychologist David Elkind....
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Playing the Blame Game
Video games stand accused of causing obesity, violence, and lousy grades. But new research paints a surprisingly...
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Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools
At Toluca Lake elementary school in Los Angeles, a cyclone fence encloses the asphalt blacktop, which is teeming with...
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Marriage, No Marriage and Happy Marriage
As a sociologist with an interest in family issues, headlines like “51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse” and...
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Binuclear Family
I remember the scene in my house on a Friday afternoon, two years after my divorce. My son comes home from school, his...
Topics: Divorce Issues | Divorce Issues
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