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As a child development researcher and clinician, I am passionate about evidence-based parenting even before having kids myself. Once we became parents, we were overwhelmed by the amount of parenting information available, much of it not backed by research. This inspired the Helping Families Thrive mission: to bring parenting science to the real world.
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