A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Results indicated that toddlers in the highest screen time category, averaging approximately five hours daily, could ...

A new study has uncovered the ways different types of play are linked to children's social abilities and brain activity. The ...

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has been a central framework for understanding how children grow and learn. His model describes development through four sequential stages: sensorimotor, ...

Associate Professor of Demography and Deputy Research Director in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL If you’re the parent of an only child, you may have had worries about how growing up without ...

Research on infant thinking suggests that babies are more complex thinkers than was once believed. There is now evidence that, by the end of their first year, children are capable of logical reasoning ...

The average number of children per family in the United States has fallen dramatically, from seven in 1800 to fewer than two in 2018. That’s good news for kids’ cognitive development, suggests a ...

Federal programs to help families balance the competing demands of work and raising their young children focus almost exclusively on subsidizing nonparental care. Yet, many families still lack access ...