Child Behavior & Discipline

The 10,000 hour rule has become a cliche. This is the idea, first espoused by K. Anders Ericsson, a pyschologist at Florida Stat...

Blame Tom Sawyer: Americans have a skewed view of childhood and
summertime. We associate the school year with oppression and th...

According to a growing number of experts, a human’s need — and search — for safety starts at conception. Studies have shown that...

Pupils are being subjected to all manner of crank treatments in the name of helping them, says Francis Gilbert.

Twenty years...

Parents who help their children with homework and are strict about sickies give their children the best start in life.

Paren...

Parents and teachers can’t have it both ways. The cosy, silent
agreement whereby there is no homework to bother the parents and...