In an era of packed schedules, screen time, and intense focus on school readiness, many children are playing less than in ...

Education leaders are trying different approaches to curb what elementary teachers say is a trend of increasingly severe behavior problems in their classrooms.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times. First, there was the child who ...

It seems that every parenting expert on the internet has a “script” for what to say when your child is having a tantrum or meltdown. Do they actually work?

Researchers tracked more than 400 toddlers to see whether mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during or just before pregnancy was linked to autism or developmental delays. After detailed assessments of speech, ...

A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To ...

Children everywhere start out similar, but culture shapes how sharing, honesty, and cooperation grow over time.

She felt the world shrink when nursery staff asked about her child's development, and that moment landed as exhaustion, worry ...

How do children learn to cooperate, and why does it look so different around the world?  A new study followed more than 400 children ages 5–13 across five societies and found that cooperation isn’t ...

Children across the globe engage in a constellation of behaviors that support cooperation, an action critical to the survival ...

Three employees of Trinity Child Development Center have been named in an amended lawsuit filed after the arrest of a former ...