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There is a danger of reading too much into new research in the Lancet on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The h...

Children aren’t learning enough because parents aren’t talking
enough, and learning to correct that was the main focus of the “...

Being a parent is an ancient art. And it seems we could learn a thing or two about child rearing by going back to the days of th...

Developing language skills appears to be more important for boys than girls in helping them to develop self-control and, ultimat...

This
morning, as usual, I waved my seven-year-old daughter Rosalie off to
school. Not from inside the school gates, not even f...

A damning new Ofstead report warns that as many as 750,000 children have been wrongly labelled as having special needs to cover...