Child Health & Development

We know that breastfeeding has a positive impact on child development and health — including protection against illness. Now res...

Placing healthy babies on their backs to sleep reduces the risk of SIDS and takes precedent over concerns about positional plagi...

An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvement...

NURTURE may have more influence over NATURE than many people think, with new research suggesting parenting could help protect ba...

At the time a baby is born, most of the body organs are pretty well developed. The heart, lungs and digestive systems are all fu...

When writing my Huffington Post piece on children and gun play, I found myself wondering what would happen if everyone under...