Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...

Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...

Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at Berkeley, wants parents to let their children grow freely without too much worry about...

Toddlers play more creatively if they’re given a few toys, according to a new study in Infant Behaviour and Development. Too many toys at...

You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play

Parents value structured activities over free play, according to a Gallup survey, “despite research associating unstructured, child-led...

Banning cellphones during lunch time has forced students to interact face to face, says Rebecca Gogel, principal of Corona del Mar Middle...

Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...

The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...

Summer is the “time to dig in the sand, gulp from the hose, play at the park, and leap with joy … unless you’re a kid,” wrote Lenore...

The University of Cambridge has appointed the world’s first Lego professor of play, writes Tom Bennett in The Guardian.  Young children...

Preschools where teachers teach about phonics, numbers and shapes  produce cognitive gains for students — especially blacks — concludes a...

Kids who wait a year to start kindergarten show significant long-term benefits, concludes a Stanford study of Danish children. “Delaying...

Four 15-minute recess breaks each day is helping kindergarten and first-grade students stay focused in class at four Fort Worth...

Kids are spending too much time sitting indoors writes Angela Hanscom, a pediatric occupational therapist, in the Washington Post‘s...

“Academic apathy” is common in high school, writes Laura Handby Hudgens on The Federalist. She thinks  students are burning out in middle...

Fisher-Price’s new Think & Learn Smart Cycle is designed for screen-addicted toddlers, reports the New York Post. The $150 kiddie...