With COVID, RSV, the flu and other bugs circulating, the last few months have been an endless cycle of illness for many families with young kids. While miserable, it's also normal in the grand scheme.

Yet kids in the storytelling group benefited significantly more: their cortisol levels were a quarter of those in the riddle group, and their oxytocin levels were nearly twice as high.

Across several studies, we asked 576 children, ages four to nine, to predict the behavior of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to ...

The Trump administration's report on kids' health cites made-up scientific studies The Make America Healthy Again team's recent report on children's health appears to have misinterpreted evidence ...

But when reviewing videotape of the silly-looking pre-schoolers, the scientists came to a fairly weighty realization: The kids stuck their tongues out the most not when performing the challenging ...