Psychology
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Religion
From God’s shoes to satellites in heaven – children weigh in on religion
8 minutes
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Human evolution
How to grow a human
Our childhood is preposterously long compared to other animals. Is it the secret to our evolutionary success?
Brenna Hassett
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Family life
Amazonian childcare
In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world
Francesca Mezzenzana
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Education
Unschooling
It takes nerve to go against the grain and take your child out of school. But, for some, that’s when learning really starts
Naomi Fisher & Heidi Steel
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Life stages
At 14, Asal is excited about her engagement. Her relatives all have their own opinions
33 minutes
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Personality
Born that way
Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs
Gina Mireault
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Stories and literature
Leave them alone
Parenting advice from D H Lawrence: don’t smother your children with love. They are more sagacious than you think
Lara Feigel
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Subcultures
The utopian machine
For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination
Susanna Crossman
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Subcultures
The great regression
To understand why so many adults are acting just like children, don’t blame Millennials – look to Japan in the 1990s
Matt Alt
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Childhood and adolescence
When Paradise, California burned, its teens became instant climate refugees
23 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
The parentified child
When parents cast a child into the role of mediator, friend and carer, the wounds are profound. But recovery is possible
Nivida Chandra
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Sex and sexuality
Idealising the predator
How did certain French intellectuals get away with preying upon young girls, shamelessly, in public and over decades?
Lily Dunn
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Work
‘Why does life have to be so complicated?’ A school trip to the world of work
12 minutes
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Philosophy of mind
Forget babbling and toddling – mindreading is babies’ most incredible skill
7 minutes
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Sex and sexuality
What does the Dutch model of comprehensive, ‘shame-free’ sex-ed look like?
9 minutes
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Teaching and learning
The charity that teaches underprivileged kids to humanely hunt their next meal
10 minutes
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Addiction
The addiction trap
Our inability to treat substance use disorders stems from a narrow-minded view that brains and genes are their real cause
Judith Grisel
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Childhood and adolescence
We’re all teenagers now
Adolescence isn’t a time of life so much as a frame of mind. Liberating yet damaging, it’s transformed the US and the world
Paul Howe
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Childhood and adolescence
Attached
From cradle to grave, we are soothed and rocked by attachments – our source of joy and pain, and the essence of who we are
Mostafa El-Kalliny & Zoe R Donaldson
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The environment
A climate activist living off-grid faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school
21 minutes
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Life stages
A filmmaker reflects on his adolescence with the help of some long-lost friends
9 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
Want an unvarnished window into the world of kids? Try cutting their hair
15 minutes
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Knowledge
Philosophy with children
Kids don’t just say ‘the darndest things’. Playful and probing, they can be closer to the grain of life’s deepest questions
Jana Mohr Lone
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Childhood and adolescence
Two brothers discuss girls, death and leaving home one aimless summer in Colorado
14 minutes