Elementary-aged children often have issues with memory tasks, since they are still developing their cognitive abilities. But new research has determined for the first time that children improved their prospective memory when they were encouraged to both imagine completing tasks ahead of time and predict their performance.

Kids who see their parents bicker during a separation or divorce are more likely to develop a fear of abandonment, new research warns.

Your parents’ good intentions might have undermined your confidence – but you can do something about it.

I hope all of you enjoy this as much as I did. Happy Holidays.

A new study finds that many children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers — especially if it will teach the transgressor a lesson.

The results gained in a study involving approximately one million Danish children increase the understanding of how socio-economic differences in childhood affect the development of mental disorders in the Nordic countries.

Twenty-five years ago, as a parent educator, I began reading about the dangers of praise. I was completely shocked by what I was learning. Praise, the feel-good strategy of choice, not good for our kids? How could that be? So I spent years talking with professionals, reading about the effects of praise, observing how my own children responded to encouragement (instead of praise) and was soon convinced to close the door on praise and focus on building an encouraging household.

The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child

The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story

Being a bearer of bad news is never easy. I’ve been writing and talking about climate change for decades now. Constant exposure hardens one to even the most horrific reality, and I’ve coped by acting like a jolly hangman – or at least not giving in publicly to the helplessness I sometimes feel as I relate the latest findings.

A Queensland mum says her son was getting suspended every second week for fighting in school and found it difficult to focus in class — but outdoor lessons at her son's school dramatically improved his behaviour both at the schoolground and home.

Where the desperation of late-stage meritocracy is so strong, you can smell it

A new study from the Netherlands finds that children raised by gay or lesbian parents do better at school than children raised by heterosexual parents. Previous studies of academic outcomes for children raised by same-sex parents have mostly relied on small sample sizes. But this new study, published last week in the journal American Sociological Review, includes data on 2,971 children with same-sex parents (2,786 lesbian couples and 185 gay male couples), and about 1.2 million children with different-sex (i.e. heterosexual) parents.

A new treatment could help children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, grow taller and avoid health problems in later life. But there are concerns about whether this is ethical

I’ve learned that our teachers and school administrators in Brockton are a lot better prepared for online learning than they were back in March. I’ve also learned that for all of their efforts, they’re not quite ready for the challenges of remote schooling. And neither am I.

We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.

The link between childhood abuse and mental illness is explored.

Parents across Silicon Valley say they're concerned they'll be judged by peers who don't have the same family obligations during work hours. Silicon Valley had to change the way its employees work when the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to close, businesses to abandon their offices and millions of people to quarantine in their homes across the US starting in March. Among the changes, companies offered flexible schedules and increased time off to help caregivers and employees in their ranks take care of their families.

They’re everywhere and can impair fertility and interfere with child development. Many years ago I spent a semester abroad in Lancaster, England, studying ecotoxicology, which essentially examines all the horrible chemicals swirling around the modern world. Suddenly, Great Britain seemed less a country than a massive pile of toxic chemicals off the coast of Europe. There were the POPs, PCBs, PBDEs, plus DDT and BPA; there was lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. Dioxins, glyphosate, microplastics, oh my!

The latest study to examine the positive impacts of nature on children found that children living in greener urban areas had higher IQs than children living in less green areas. The research, published in PLOS Medicine, looked at 620 children and found those living in urban areas with three percent more greenery scored an average of 2.6 points higher in IQ.