Child Brain Development

American education is on a shaky foundation when students believe they are brilliant even though they have major deficiencies in...

Ryuta Kawashima, the scientist behind the smash-hit “brain training” games on Nintendo DS portable consoles, turned down the cha...

For decades, scientists and parents explored how much of children’s chances for success were determined by their nature (the gen...

Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic, and as many as 1 in 5 children are overweight. Many factors affect children’s weight, i...

Q: My 15-month-old boy rams his little pushcart into our dog. He thinks it’s a game — a very funny one, apparently. His pediatr...

Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence o...