Adam Grant

Tina Payne Bryson

At a time when issues of sexual harassment and consent are in the news, and with the holidays just around the corner, the Girl Scouts have resurfaced a recommendation about how parents can help young girls handle affection.

It’s the quality of time parents spend with their children, not the quantity.

Playtime, downtime and family time are so essential to a child's healthy development. But with competing demands from school, extracurricular activities and anxiety, getting downtime might be hard to come by.

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My son climbed to the top of the monkey bars and snaked across them from above. He's not strong enough to...

Today, kids have more ways to be entertained than ever before: there are all kinds of toys, gadgets, and gizmos that can keep tots occupied for hours on end. The more mobile-friendly of these past times can be played with just about anywhere: from a…

After my husband’s death, I set out to learn everything I could about how kids persevere through adversity.

Tania Lombrozo looks at research published Monday showing people's factual judgment of how much danger a child is in while a parent is away varies according to the extent of their moral outrage.

Toys can help children learn to be thankful for what they have.

Research suggests that some gadgets can make parents less likely to engage in meaningful give-and-take with their children.

Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.

Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” as well as “The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class” and “How schools ruined […]

When I was little, my mother's inspiration for our school lunches usually revolved around chocolate chips and food coloring.

Parenting decisions that were commonplace a few decades ago are now cause for 911 calls and visits from a police officer or someone from child protective services.

A reports says the amount of time parents spend with their children has virtually no link to how kids turn out.

Bill Jones is thought to have been the first single man to adopt a child in California, back in the 1960s. His son has since died, but despite the loss, Jones says he never regrets adopting his child.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a 10-year old Maryland boy named Rafi and his 6-year old sister Dvora walked home by themselves from a playground about a mile away from their suburban house. They made it about halfway home when the police picked them up. You’ve heard these stories before,...

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