Mothers and fathers of teen internet celebrities get a crash course in a new kind of fame while trying to maintain boundaries for their newly rich and powerful children.

Thank God the holidays are over.

Sure, you praise your kids. And they look at you with beaming little faces. Such a warm feeling, if only for a moment. But, is that all there is to praise? What’s simmering in the brain behind those sparkling eyes? It may well depend on the precise nature of the praise you gave. There are at least two main ways that you can praise a child. First, you can praise them as a person. You can say, “you are very smart” or “you are good at math.”

It doesn’t work, and it teaches all the wrong lessons.

Six researchers, building on past studies, designed an experiment to see what makes kids stay on task when presented with the very real-world temptation of an iPad.

New data suggest the rate hovers between two and three percent

Kids who know how to deceive are smarter and better adjusted.

We are committed to ending all forms of forced genital cutting which is by definition non-therapeutic. This includes female genital mutilation (FGM) and the religiously or culturally-motivated cutting of boys' genitals. The NSS supports a person's most fundamental right to grow up with an intact body and to make their own choices about permanent bodily modifications; these basic rights must not be overridden because of other people's dogma.

An Oklahoma man is behind bars after police say he beat his girlfriend's 5-year-old because the little boy opened a Christmas present early. The child's mother says her boyfriend was watching her children while she was Christmas shopping Saturday. She came home to something she never thought she would see. She saw bruises on her 5-year-old son's back and arms, welts on his forehead and an apparent hand print on his cheek.

A Victorian mother has lost a legal bid to stop her three children from receiving vaccinations for measles. The woman went to the Supreme Court to challenge a Children's Court order that her three children to be immunised while in the temporary care of the Department of Health and Human Services.

More kids than ever watched streaming services like Netflix instead of traditional TV this year.

Adolescence is when values and relationships are formed and things happen that leave their sticky fingerprints on the life that follows. Even, it seems, in the everyday functioning of brain systems. New research published in Developmental Science shows that when teenagers have a positive relationship with their parents, then as adults their brains and bodies respond to stress in a way that helps them better engage with the world.

Vaccines save lives, so why do some parents prefer not to get their children vaccinated against deadly diseases? It seems the ideas of purity and liberty have a big influence. Avnika Amin at Emory University, Georgia, and her team surveyed more than 1000 adults in the US who had at least one child aged 12 or younger.

By Elizabeth Weil *with Comments and Corrections by Hannah W Duane. Photograph by Tabitha Soren, assisted by Dixie Lewis, 15.

The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn't just keep them warm, snug, and loved. A new study says it can actually affect babies at the molecular level, and the effects can last for years.

A new study finds cuddling a baby enhances methylation of key DNA sites years later. In other words, a hug brings benefits to the baby even many years later.

A feral child was found starving, covered in her own filth, unable to walk or talk. A new family adopted the girl in 2007, called her Dani, and tried to make up for years of neglect. By Lane DeGregory.

ellogg's has been accused of a "weasly" attempt to get around child obesity sugar rules after re-branding Frosties as an adult cereal. From 2020 food brands targeting children with sugary products face being named and shamed by the Government if they fail to reduce the sugar content by 20 per cent. But after a trial of "reduced sugar" Frosties that contain 30 per cent less sugar flopped, Kellogg's confirmed that it will not reduce the sugar content.

To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born. By Jen Gann.

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