child development

What is your fondest childhood memory?I remember playing outside almost every day until the street lights came on.Riding bikes. Hanging out with friends…

About 210,000 kids under age 18 are being raised nationally by more than 122,000 same-sex couples.And according to a new study in the Journal of…

Can’t believe it’s 2015 already? We can’t either.Here's a rundown of what caught our attention (and yours) most last year. Child developmentOne of our…

Many folks who tuned into Jennifer Guerra’s arresting audio documentary on foster care, "Finding Home," wondered how some of the young adults featured,…

Before Aurora Ducket was even born, her mom Angela signed up for every program she could."I did the MOMS program through Spectrum Health," she told me. "I…

New technologies are also bringing new anxieties for parents. What is all this screen time doing to children's development? Assuming that just because a…

If you really want to understand childhood brain development you could read all of the books written by folks like Jack Shonkoff, but for those of us who…

Reporting on a University of Connecticut study, The Atlantic prettied up data on how parents around the world describe describe their children.Sarah…

I've been kind of obsessed with neuroscience lately. The study of our brains has made some amazing leaps in the past decade or so, particularly when it…