{"id":91404,"date":"2026-06-30T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91404"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:12:08","slug":"having-children-makes-you-smarter-incredible-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/having-children-makes-you-smarter-incredible-but-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Having children makes you smarter? Incredible, but true"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26Nn2D.img?w=768&h=537&m=6&x=254&y=137&s=239&d=282\" alt=\"\u2018Shall we play with the linguistics blocks, darling?\u2019 Photograph: Posed by models; Johner Images\/Getty Images\/Johner RF\" width=\"684\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good news, fellow parents: our children may have laid waste to our finances, pelvic integrity and circadian rhythms, and mocked our new sandals so devastatingly we can never wear them again,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/lifestylegeneral\/having-children-makes-you-smarter-incredible-but-true\/ar-AA26MQO0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a438696dfec4093b3c82d9ea4648c8c&ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Good news, fellow parents: our children may have laid waste to our finances, pelvic integrity and circadian rhythms, and mocked our new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/visiting-family.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91405,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91404\/revisions\/91405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}