If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The transition to parenthood can be an anxious time for expectant moms and dads. A recent study shows that stress on fathers ...

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

Why this matters: A major meta-analysis of 84 studies shows paternal mental health strongly influences child development, especially in early childhood. The biggest impact: Anxiety, depression, and ...

Developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil holds the Daniel Levin Professorship at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She directs the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy ...

Parenting exerts profound effects on children’s cognitive, social and emotional trajectories from infancy through adolescence. Caregiver–child interactions characterised by warmth, consistency and ...

Seven years after an initial $17.9 million award from the National Institutes of Health, the Illinois Kids Development Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will receive approximately ...

Professor Carri Westgarth, Chair in Human and Animal Interaction, University of Liverpool is an author of a recently published article in BMC Pediatrics on companion animals and child development ...

Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report. Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited ...

When my two sons, now young adults, were in elementary school, on some days my wife and I were sure they were lying with completely straight faces when we interrogated them about the status of ...

The transition to parenthood can be an anxious time for expectant moms and dads. A recent study shows that stress on fathers before and after the birth of a baby could affect their children's ...