Child Health & Development

Books and educational toys can make a child smarter, but they also influence how the brain grows, according to new research pres...

Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants...

Policy makers who want to simultaneously boost high school graduation rates and reverse health epidemics from diabetes to obesit...

This is the second installment in a three-part Harvard Medical School series on childhood obesity.

With childhood obesity now...

Motherhood begins as a tempestuously physical experience but quickly becomes a political one. Once a woman’s pregnancy goes publ...

Forget hovering over your children. Experts now believe we should let them take risks – for their own sakes.

The moment Cath P...