Parenting & Education

Mothers have read their babies happy stories for generations in the hope they can grow up to read properly.

But now researcher...

Letting babies “cry it out” is an idea that has been around since at least the 1880s when the field of medicine was in a hullaba...

A parent I know went to an information session about math at his kid’s school. After listening to the visiting curriculum expert...

In the wake of the recent video showing a Texas judge repeatedly belt-whipping his teen daughter and the recent deaths of young...

Many explanations for the gender gap in math skills don’t hold up, suggests new research on math skills and gender in 86 countri...

Editor’s note: Annie Murphy Paul is the author of “Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives.” Sh...