If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can do is help build your child’s vocabulary.

For thousands of years, mothers have sung lullabies to help their babies and children fall asleep.

One of the most valuable lessons parents can teach their children about money might be how to give it away.

Over the past few decades of Australian life, government policies have gradually offered more support to working mothers, particularly through childcare subsidies and parental leave.

I recently worked a shift in the emergency room at a Toronto-area hospital and was asked to see a 12-year-old boy who had cut himself for the first time, on his wrist.

Some Australian students are reportedly shunning Year 12 exams in favour of more favourable, and less stressful, pathways to finishing school.

The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor people’s movement, health, mindfulness, sleep, eating habits and even sexual activity.

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at age 4, a new study finds.

Warm, nurturing messages need repeating over and over again with our children.

Imagine listening to your favorite song, how it makes you feel, and the flood of memories the sounds bring with them.

Pregnant women who use cannabis may slightly increase the risk their child will develop psychosis later in life, according to a new study.

While most first-year college students in a new study had positive feelings about computing and computer-related majors and jobs, gender and socioeconomic status seemed to play a role in whether parents shaped those perceptions.

Children are learning how emotions work, what to do with the challenging ones and how to create helpful ones, and the power of paying attention to their bodies and feelings in becoming emotionally healthy.

In Africa, it is understood that children hold the knowledge and gifts that ensure the survival of the village and the tribe. In essence, the child is the king of the village. Children complete the community! When a child walks into...

Kids who have more conflict with their mothers while in the early years of elementary school may find it more difficult to find a sense of purpose as adults, a new study suggests.

So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant.

Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study.

Our children feel things deeply, including surprise, delight, disgust, anger, frustration, revenge, jealousy, and enthusiasm. They often don’t even have the words to communicate their feelings, which is why they sometimes act them out inappropriately, but once they learn...

Improvisational theater training can reduce fearfulness and anxiety among teens struggling with social interactions, according to a new study.

When school begins later, teens get more snooze time—and grades and attendance improve, a new study shows.

Don’t force an unremorseful kid to apologize until they’re truly sorry, new research suggests. The point of an apology—to express remorse and repair relationships—is lost because children may dislike the apologizer even more after the insincere apology than before.

New research shows how intensive instruction changes brain circuitry in struggling readers.

We often hear about the benefits of reading storybooks at bedtime for promoting vocabulary, early literacy skills, and a good relationship with your child. But the experts haven’t been in your home, and your child requests the same book every single night, sometimes multiple times a night. You both know all the words by heart.