Maia Szalavitz and Bonnie Rochman

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Nurturing Moms May Boost Children’s Brain Growth

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The next time you’re tempted to lose your cool with your kids, do your best to channel your inner peacenik: it’s good for your child’s brain. School-age children whose mothers supported and nurtured them most in early childhood had a larger hippocampus, an area of the brain that is involved in memory, learning and stress [...]