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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
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- Jul 13, 2026 We tend to assume people who retire early die sooner because work itself keeps you alive, but a 2020 review of 25… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 12, 2026 Psychology says people who carry the emotional weight in every friendship for decades aren't cold or socially deficient… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 12, 2026 A study that followed 184 thirteen-year-olds for ten years found that the ones their classmates rated as the 'coolest'… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 12, 2026 People assume politicians break most of their promises because they are unusually dishonest, but research on political… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 12, 2026 People who make a habit of small, everyday kindnesses aren't just being nice, students who did more of them each week… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 12, 2026 We tend to assume abusive relationships are abusive all the time, but psychologist Lenore Walker's 1979 cycle of… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
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- Jul 12, 2026 A UCL study found that handwriting activates significantly more regions of the brain than typing the same words, which… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jun 1, 2026 There's a quiet skill that's becoming rare in people under thirty, the ability to feel the sting of having lost and let… By Kiran Journals