Archive

2026 ⁴⁹

September ⁸

Did More Arts Education Raise Test Scores? A Lottery of 10,000 Students Answers

September 24, 2026 · 9 min

The Child Who Drew a Circle at Three Reasoned Better at Sixteen

September 21, 2026 · 9 min

In a Noisy Room a Child Learned Nothing — With One Exception

September 19, 2026 · 9 min

Your Child Talking More Is Not the Good News You Think It Is

September 16, 2026 · 13 min

The Moment We Try to Teach a Hard Word, We Flatten Our Sentences

September 14, 2026 · 12 min

Still Sucking Their Thumb Past Five — How Do You Actually Help?

September 11, 2026 · 8 min

Why Your Voice Goes Up on “Ellll-ephant” — The Real Signal a Child’s Brain Uses to Learn a New Word

September 9, 2026 · 7 min

They Say Holding a Tantruming Child Spoils Them?

September 6, 2026 · 9 min

June ¹⁰

Your Household Rhythm at Age 2 Shapes How Your Child Sleeps at Age 10

June 26, 2026 · 6 min

The 30 Minutes Before Sleep Build Your Child’s “Learning Brain” — But There’s a Catch

June 23, 2026 · 6 min

It’s Not Just Playing — Kids Have to Imagine the Impossible to Grow Their Minds

June 20, 2026 · 6 min

Can I Just Let My Kid Play Outside Instead of Studying? What 10,000 Children Suggest

June 17, 2026 · 5 min

Will an Only Child Struggle to Read Others’ Minds? Two Twists in the Research on Siblings and Mind-Reading

June 15, 2026 · 7 min

What Your Hands Do During Read-Alouds May Shape Your Child’s Vocabulary

June 12, 2026 · 7 min

“My Child Is the Only One Whose Speech Is Late” — A 17-Year Follow-Up of Those Children

June 10, 2026 · 7 min

Two Faces of a Child Who Controls a Parent — The One Who Commands, the One Who Caretakes

June 7, 2026 · 6 min

For an Anxious Child, Soothing Isn’t the Answer — Training Only the Parents for 12 Weeks Matched CBT

June 5, 2026 · 6 min

Mothers and Fathers Talk About the Same Amount — but the Words Children Hear Are Different

June 2, 2026 · 6 min

May ¹³

The Age When Parents Want to Drop the Nap Is Exactly When the Nap Helps Most

May 31, 2026 · 6 min

Four Sessions of a Board Game Reshaped Low-Income Preschoolers’ Sense of Number

May 28, 2026 · 8 min

Why a 10-Minute Bedtime Story Reaches All the Way to Middle-School Grades

May 26, 2026 · 6 min

What Helped Preterm Babies Catch Up Wasn’t “Good Music” — It Was Singing Together

May 23, 2026 · 7 min

“Just Let Them Run Around Outside” — Same Minutes, Opposite Effects Depending on When

May 21, 2026 · 7 min

Are Children Who Overcome Adversity Exceptional? — 30 Years of Resilience Research Found “Ordinary Magic”

May 18, 2026 · 5 min

Does Waiting for the Marshmallow at 4 Predict Success at 30? A 26-Year Follow-Up of 702 Children

May 16, 2026 · 6 min

Why Telling Your Teen “Stop Using the Phone” Makes Them Use It More

May 13, 2026 · 6 min

Seven Weeks of Changing “How to Talk” — And Child Problem Behaviors Went Down

May 11, 2026 · 7 min

Why “Moderately Supportive” Parents Produce Outcomes Similar to “Neglectful” Ones

May 8, 2026 · 6 min

How Long a 4-Year-Old Focuses on One Toy Predicts Whether They’ll Graduate College at 25

May 6, 2026 · 7 min

Two-Parent or Single-Parent — A 12-Year Study of 714 Families Found No Difference in Child Behavior

May 3, 2026 · 7 min

“Where Did They Learn That Word?” — Children Are Geniuses at Overhearing

May 1, 2026 · 6 min

April ⁹

The Moment a Child Stops Grabbing Toys and Starts Negotiating — What Changes?

April 28, 2026 · 6 min

“Just Let Them Play a Lot, Right?” — A Meta-Analysis Says the Quality of Play Matters More Than the Quantity

April 26, 2026 · 6 min

Is Your Second Child a Slower Talker? What Really Matters Isn’t Birth Order

April 23, 2026 · 6 min

How Do You Build a Child’s Focus and Self-Control?

April 15, 2026 · 9 min

When Your Child Is Focused, the Best Thing to Do Is Nothing

April 11, 2026 · 7 min

Children Who Start Reading at 5 vs 7 — What Happens by Age 11?

April 6, 2026 · 6 min

“I’m Usually a Good Parent, So Yelling Sometimes Is Fine, Right?” — A Study of 976 Families Says Otherwise

April 4, 2026 · 7 min

Checking Your Phone While Playing with Your Child — Nearly Every Parent Does It, but Is It Harmless?

April 4, 2026 · 7 min

Data from 150,000 Children Speaks — Does Father Involvement Actually Matter?

April 4, 2026 · 6 min

March ⁹

To Help Others, Children Must First Feel Safe — What 465 Kids Revealed About the Roots of Empathy

March 29, 2026 · 7 min

Is Cutting Screen Time Really Enough? What 46 Studies Actually Say

March 28, 2026 · 7 min

Children Who Understand Emotions Read Better — A Study Tracking 356 Kids Proves It

March 27, 2026 · 7 min

If AI Reads Picture Books to Your Child, Do Parents Become Obsolete?

March 26, 2026 · 7 min

Starting Early Isn’t Enough — What a 25-Country Review Says About Foreign Language Education for Young Children

March 22, 2026 · 7 min

What Screens Take From Your Child Isn’t Time — It’s Conversation

March 22, 2026 · 6 min

Will Early Foreign Language Exposure Hurt My Child? — Weighing the Concerns Against the Evidence

March 22, 2026 · 8 min

Does Talking More to Your Child Really Accelerate Language Development? — What a 4-Year Longitudinal Study Found

March 21, 2026 · 8 min

The Book You Choose Changes How Your Child Speaks — What a 6-Week Experiment Revealed