The TRICK collection · Volumes 1 and 2 · 2026
Raise people.
Build relationships.
A thoughtful home for parenting research. Begin with five human values: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration and Kindness.
500 readings across two volumes · 100 per element.
Evidence you can follow back to its source.
The TRICK collection
Original research for families and caregivers.
The journal archive
Read by volume
Planned inaugural feature
How to Raise
Successful People
A place for Esther Wojcicki’s forthcoming feature, alongside a research issue organized around her TRICK framework.
About the forthcoming featureChoose a question that matters today
Five values.
Room for every family.
Start with one relationship, one question, one reading. The five sections connect; each article has one primary home in the collection.
Can my child count on me?
Trust
Security, sensitivity and relationships where children can speak openly.Does my child feel heard?
Respect
Dignity, emotional understanding and listening without humiliation.What can my child learn to do?
Independence
Agency, growing responsibility and room to practise with support.How can we work through this together?
Collaboration
Shared problem-solving, coparenting and family partnerships.How do we care for one another?
Kindness
Empathy, warmth, compassion and everyday prosocial action.A good first reading
Begin with the evidence.
These starting points open directly into the original study, its context, limitations and Paper Agent.
- TrustAnnual Research Review: The role of caregiver sensitivity in children's developmental outcomes – an umbrella review Umbrella review · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
- RespectThe Influence of Parents on Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood: A Systematic Review Systematic review · Children
- IndependenceA Little Autonomy Support Goes a Long Way: Daily Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting, Child Well‐Being, Parental Need Fulfillment, and Change in Child, Family, and Parent Adjustment Across the Adaptation to the COVID‐19 Pandemic Daily-diary longitudinal study · Child Development
- CollaborationThe Association between Coparenting Behavior and Internalizing/Externalizing Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis Meta-analysis · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- KindnessLinking Parent–Child and Peer Relationship Quality to Empathy in Adolescence: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis Multilevel meta-analysis · Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Curiosity with a visible foundation
Useful. Open.
Honest about its limits.
Each reading preserves its original authors, journal, date and DOI. Creative Commons permissions are checked against the article’s own license notice. Paper Agents find source passages; they do not invent parenting answers.
The TRICK placement is an editorial interpretation. These studies explore related relationships and practices; they do not collectively establish that the entire framework guarantees a particular outcome.