Amazon Kindle Publication environment surrounding children has changed significantly over the past few decades. The nature of ...

I recently attended a seminar on child development. The theme was physical development, play, and how to interact with children according to their developmental stages. It was an opportunity to learn ...

Research shows that a balance of warmth, structure and age-appropriate expectations can support healthy development.

Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong in a child’s development. In the field of child psychology, we call them adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Some ACEs include natural disasters, loss of a loved ...

The Consequences of Frequent Scolding Understanding the Effects of Scolding on Children: Are you reprimanding your child for every little mistake? While guiding children and correcting their behavior ...

For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to base our thinking on a child’s development around what we understand as “normal”. Much of the time we do this without thinking, describing a ...

There are many key themes in child development. This blog covers the role of families in child development, looking at parenting as a team around children (“coparenting”) and how it operates in the ...

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development. A Save the Children report released Tuesday found that children in ...

Most parents worry when children lie. Research suggests those lies may reveal important clues about how children think, learn ...