Child Brain Development

Australia is planning to restrict TV for toddlers, because of adverse effects on the brain. How scared should we be?

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Here’s one more take on Dr. Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow study, which I analyzed last Friday. If you recall, one third of...

Excellence is grown, not born, a New York Times best-selling author told members of the Evanston school community on Friday. 

I recently stopped to congratulate a young mother pushing her toddler in a stroller. The woman had been talking to her barely v...

If you sit that close to the TV, you're going to go blind.

If you don't clean your ears, potatoes will grow in them.

If you...

My daugther's favourite nursery rhyme was Humpty Dumpty. As a baby, she'd grin and gurgle to keep me singing; later she'd pull m...