children
Gray zone: when is it best not to save a life?
Medical science can save lives, but should it do so at the cost of quality of life?
Marriage lotteries and a bachelors’ tax: The strange past of fighting declining birthrates
Birthrates are cyclical and have gone up and down throughout history.
Study: ADHD is overdiagnosed and overtreated
Like autism, ADHD lies on a spectrum, and some children should not be treated.
The birth of childhood: A brief history of the European child
Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
Targeting microbiome can help treat malnourished children
Healthy people need healthy microbiomes from an early age.
Why hasn’t evolution made human childbirth easier?
The answer seems to be a series of evolutionary trade-offs that help protect organs in women, according to a recent study.
Is your child’s smart toy actually a creepy surveillance tool?
And is anyone protecting children's data?
Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys
Fifty years of research on children's toy preferences shows that kids generally prefer toys oriented toward their own gender.
For some, the pandemic eased mental health distress
Children with pre-existing mental health issues thrived during the early phase of the pandemic.
16 values children learned from pop culture in the past 50 years
A 50-year study reveals changing values children learned from pop culture.
Help your kids, but not too much, says new Stanford study
Flying that helicopter too low is counterproductive.
Introduce your child to the world of STEM with these DIY projects
These DIY learning kits focus on topics like coding, robotics, and AI, and are on sale for as low as $41.99.
We have a new word for that feeling when travel makes everything new
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
The way we teach science misses something key: Human context
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
‘Designer baby’ book trilogy explores the moral dilemmas humans may soon create
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the "Genetic Pressure" series.
How showing remorse can save your relationships
Scientists ripped up kids' drawings. This is what they learned about relationships.
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Yes, more and more young adults are living with their parents – but is that necessarily bad?
Having grown kids still at home is not likely to do you, or them, any permanent harm.
Remote education is decreasing anxiety, increasing wellbeing for some students
A recent NIHR report found that students with previously low connectedness scores saw improvement in well-being and eased anxiety.
Just 1 month in greener play areas could boost kids’ immune systems, study says
The researchers say their findings support the idea that low biodiversity in modern living environments could lead to "uneducated" immune systems.
Should parents de-emphasize gender norms?
The color of toys has a much deeper effect on children than some parents may realize.
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Smart parenting: 2 exercises that build confidence in girls
The ability to speak up and ask will give these future leaders a much needed boost.
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Are humans wired for conflict? Lord of the Flies vs. Charles Darwin
We make school kids read "Lord of the Flies"—but it's only half the story.
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Autistic people’s nerve cells differ before birth, new study finds
"Such studies will lead to a better understanding of brain development in both autistic and typical individuals."
Brain study finds that humans are born wired for reading letters and words
The area of the brain that recognizes letters and words is ready for action right from the start.
America of the 1930s saw thousands of people become Nazi
Nazi supporters held huge rallies and summer camps for kids throughout the United States in the 1930s.
How music therapy benefits the autistic brain
While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.
Why mothers of tweens – not babies – are the most depressed
'Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.'
Handwriting shown to be better for memory than typing, at any age
A new study collected 500 data points per second. Handwriting won out.