The Important Ways Praising Your Child Might Affect Them Later in Life

I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about parenting. Maybe it’s the fact that I work in an office with mostly parents, all with adorable kids. I mean, adorable. Second, I’ve been inundated with articles on social media surrounding the pros and cons of praising children. It’s a hot topic right […]

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Take Your Child to Work Day is Awesome for Business

A couple Friday nights ago, my sister asked me to take her boyfriend’s 13-year-old son Adam to our office for Take Your Child to Work Day (“TYCTWD”). Adam’s dad had a conflict and was apparently curious about software. My own daughters, who had spent enough ‘day care’ time at CivicScience over the years, chose their […]

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You Don’t Need to Have Kids to be Happy

I hope you’ve read the analysis we published on Quartz.com about the differences between parents and non-parents in the U.S. If you haven’t read it, here are the Cliff’s Notes: On most lifestyle metrics (sleep, fitness, diet, social life, travel, and entertainment), non-parents generally appear, according to the data, to have a better quality of […]

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