The chances of a sibling also having ADHD, autism are low, but higher than the average.

Only one of the strongest predictors of academic success.

We are products of our environments, after all.

Boys don't just 'talk later.'

Kids give a damn about their bad reputation.

The renowned Aesop’s fable “The Crow and the Pitcher” now has as an entirely new lesson to offer: Based on the same principles as the fable, researchers from the University of Cambridge found that children as young as seven are 

What new parent has stared at their speechless child in utter befuddlement? But now we have a peek into what’s going on inside that freshly baked mind: Practice. Enough practice that babies often amaze us by seeming to pick up 

Every parent of a young child worries about their child’s development. But some milestones are easier to instinctively track or evaluate than others. And once a missed milestone is intuited or spotted, it’s not always easy for parents to know 

A deficit in the development of the teenage brain has been blamed for teens’ behavior in recent years, but it may be time to lay the stereotype of the wild teenage brain to rest. Brain deficits don’t make teens do 

For children in preschool, speaking two languages may be better than one, especially for developing the skill of inhibitory control, that is, the impulse control necessary to stop a hasty, reflexive response and instead select a more considered, adaptive response. 

This is a quick read, so you can get back to your regularly scheduled not-sleeping, stat.  Sleep regression is a term only loosely understood by parents, until they actually experience it. And then the full picture of what sleep regression 

Respecting teenage friendships and relationships can take a lot of parental self-restraint. But this might make you feel a little better whenever Anika-of-the-Pink-Hair invades your home: a new 10-year study suggests teenagers’ friends have an important, positive effect on their 

Teens aren’t the only ones who sleep in order to learn. A new study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS), has found that sleep accelerates a baby’s language development, allowing children 

Over the past two decades, emotional intelligence – often shortened to EQ or EI – has become a not-so-secret elixir of success. It is credited with building brain circuitry and increasing academic and professional performance, health, relationship satisfaction and personal 

What the hell is Theory of Mind? So, your toddler likes to bite you. Or maybe she’s busy pulling the hair of her siblings. Or maybe her pretend play is to act out sleeping and eating. It’s obnoxious and painful 

The moment toddlers come home and recite “One plus one equals two,” we shout it from the highest mountaintops (or family WhatsApp groups). Our child is a maths genius, we proclaim. But here’s the thing: Our little maths prodigies don’t 

That adorable little pudgster might be slowly lisping her first babble, but her brain is moving faster than a photon on cocaine: Every word you say is being absorbed and processed, and will form the foundation of her vocabulary. So, ditch 

Scientific understanding of speech problems in children has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades. But like much of academic understanding, it has yet to translate into everyday knowledge. Incorrect beliefs about speech disorders still hold strong. The fact