A handbook designed to help parents become advisors and coaches to their adult children leaving for their first year of college has been shown to increase family connections and decrease risky behaviors like drug and alcohol use.
By Corrie Wilder, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication PULLMAN, Wash. – Two Washington State University researchers have been asked to join a nationwide Experiment.com crowdfunded project to help parents and teens communicate about romantic and sexual relationships.
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Parenting doesn’t end when children head off to college, though there’s not much advice for what parents should do. With a five-year, nearly $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at Washington State University will look at how […]
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer VANCOUVER, Wash. – Some 40 years ago, Washington State University anthropologist Barry Hewlett noticed that when the Aka pygmies stopped to rest between hunts, parents would give their infants small axes, digging sticks and knives.
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences WENATCHEE, Wash. – A Washington State University researcher has found that yoga can help fathers in jail be better dads.
PULLMAN – Parenting specialist Mac Bledsoe and Bob Craves, co-founder of the College Success Foundation, will be featured speakers at the WSU College of Education’s Homecoming weekend celebration. The seminars will be held on Oct. 9, followed by the Scholarship and Excellence Awards presentation on Oct. 10, at the […]
PULLMAN – The connection between a child’s stress level and the child’s future may become clearer following additional research to be funded by a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Robert J. Quinlan, assistant professor of anthropology at Washington State University (WSU), is the lead investigator for an NSF grant funded in tandem […]