I started spending time with my three kids individually instead of all together. It's reduced sibling rivalry and I connect ...

"This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children," Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of 11- to ...

Mattel has spent 80 years studying the value of play with children. This global study validates that play isn’t just for kids ...

On the March 12 episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, the actor opened up about his free-range parenting style ...

Sponsored by The Baton Rouge Clinic In today’s fast-paced world, children’s schedules are often packed with school, sports ...

As kindergarten becomes more academically intense, some schools in Wichita are incorporating self-directed free play — known among educators as purposeful play — into the daily schedule as a way to ...

For non-contact sports, most children can safely enter participation at age 6 or 7: baseball, figure skating, golf, ...

We are currently in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. In 2023 in England, a fifth of children aged 8 to 16 had a ...

The waiting list for a family-sized social rented home in some London boroughs would now take over a century to clear completely at the current ...

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After years of empty promises, Big Tech firms aren’t going to address their harmful effects on kids. Phone-free schools are ...

The years-long feud between Dennis Padilla and his children Julia, Claudia, and Leon Barretto turns for the worse yet again ...