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Children everywhere start out similar, but culture shapes how sharing, honesty, and cooperation grow over time.

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Books trump screens when it comes to reading comprehension, as Yahoo News reported. A new meta-analysis of the link between leisure reading and comprehension confirms previous findings that printed ...

Empathy grows in the small stuff. These everyday moments help children notice feelings, take another person’s perspective, ...

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...

Between curriculum changes and technological advances, schools today no longer teach kids these 11 old-fashioned lessons.

Hyesang Chang and colleagues, from Stanford University, explored why some children struggle to learn math compared to their peers in a new JNeurosci paper. Children selected which numbers were bigger ...