For 71 years, Sharon L., a retired nurse, believed she was an only child. Then, one day, she received an email that changed ...

Police warn about viral social media trends including the 'door-kicking challenge' and 'UrbanEx' as teens seek social media ...

Children are not just short adults. They think about things in qualitatively different ways than adults do. These differences can be delightful, baffling, or exasperating.

What’s My Child Thinking: Practical Child Psychology For Modern Parents, by Tanith Carey with Dr Angharad Rudkin (£16.99), is published by DK.

When it comes to talking to children, many of us might instinctively simplify or even "dumb down" our language. But treating kids like they’re incapable of handling complexity can be more damaging ...

Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about what others are thinking. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who is credited with founding the ...

Childless individuals want children but don’t have them due to factors out of their control, such as infertility, illness or affordability. By contrast, child-free people choose not to have ...

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Instead, he says, parents should role model critical thinking and improve their bond with their children by listening and finding opportunities to say, “You’re right! I never thought about it ...

Smoking marijuana during pregnancy may quell your morning sickness, but it could also harm your child's development, a new study warns. Cannabis exposure in the womb is associated in early ...

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering, “What in the world is my kid thinking?”, you’re in good company. Almost all parents have probably asked themselves that question, at some point ...