Child Brain Development

It has been more than four years since then-Harvard President Lawrence Summers publicly speculated about the disproportionately...

For more than a century American parents—ever more distanced from grandmothers and suspicious of tradition—have looked to social...

Dr. Gerald Shiener of Birmingham recalls how angry he'd get when his teenage son failed to turn in homework even though he'd com...

As children head back to school next week, many will carry a self-defeating idea inside their heads, that “I’m smart” or “I’m du...

A baby’s brain is quite brillant, a psychollgist says in her new book. Far from being irrational, children are more astute than...

Why am I not surprised to discover the number of Australian schoolchildren diagnosed with psychological or emotional disorders i...