Mary Brophy Marcus, CBS News Fresh air and exercise may be going by the wayside for little ones, suggests a new study that found preschoolers in child care centers often don’t get enough outdoor play time. The new research, published […]
Mark Papados, YourTango Technology is everywhere, including your family’s communication style. The human brain is an amazing thing. It’s stored everything you’ve ever experienced, seen, heard, smelled or felt; and, each of these “files” is stored in a different area of […]
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post Parental concerns about student privacy have been rising in recent years amid the growing use by schools, school districts and states use technology to collect mountains of detailed information on students. Last year, a controversial […]
Deborah Ziff, US News More parents are waiting to have children later in life, meaning their savings goals for retirement and their children’s college education are often on a crash course. The average age of American women having their first child […]
Aarti Shahani, WNYC Before age 1 (ONE!), nearly half of kids play games or watch videos on a mobile device. That’s according to one recent study of families with young children published in the journal Pediatrics. By the time they’re […]
Jonathan Zimmerman, The New York Times “YOUTH is subjected by our civilization to aggressive sex stimuli and suggestiveness oozing from every pore.” So declared the education professor Clark Hetherington in 1914, condemning the proliferation of racy movies and tell-all magazines. […]
Emma Brown, The Washington Post The violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student in class last month has triggered new scrutiny of the nation’s school resource officers, whose numbers have increased in recent decades alongside concerns about school […]
Ami Albernaz, Boston Globe Though same-sex parents still face disapproval from some, the vast majority of research points to the same conclusion: Children raised by same-sex couples fare just as well as others. In the last few months, new studies […]
Lindsay Carlton, Fox News Most parents would agree that raising happy children is often easier said than done. Are you praising them too much or too little? Are you disciplining them enough? Teaching them the right skills? Trying to find […]
Matthew M Leahy, PhD, Psych Central The mental health community has come to understand that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be as common in children as in adults. What began as a disorder mostly of combat veterans has been shown […]
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