Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing ...

Home-based interventions that teach parents to engage children in playful interactive learning activities can close the cognitive development gap between disadvantaged children and high-resource peers ...

When your precocious 7-year-old refuses to go horse riding because it makes them sneeze, stop and think. Have they made a connection that you missed? Cancel the class and celebrate! Your child is ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, it is important to understand how students think and learn so as to be able to teach effectively. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, profoundly impacted ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...

Encouraging low-income families to stimulate their toddlers with play and involve them in household activities can improve the children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills development, Yale ...

Cognitive skills and experiences like classroom-based play in kindergarten lead to participation in extracurricular activities in 8th grade among children growing up in poverty, finds a new study.

New research from the University of South Australia challenges conventional wisdom about sedentary behavior and its effects on brain health. The groundbreaking study reveals that certain types of ...

Ever feel like your baby has their hands on everything? Or that everything ends up in their mouth — including, dare we say it, the most unappetizing things imaginable? Guess what — this is exactly ...