Parents boost language development in early childhood by naming what children see, touch, smell, taste and do as they play.
Professor Catherine S. Tamis-LeMondaFebruary 2019
Support conversational capacities among parents on low incomes for language development in children that can cut poverty’s impact.
Jack O'SullivanFebruary 2019
Education’s increasingly narrow focus on tests and targets overlooks play’s harder-to-measure contributions to child development.
Jack O'SullivanJanuary 2019
Pretend play is both vital and unique to humanity even if, as research suggests, more of it does not boost cognitive learning or creativity.
Paul L. HarrisDecember 2018
Children guide their own learning. They look elsewhere when learning slows, because they’ve mastered the material or it’s too difficult. Inattention can aid child development.
Celeste KiddDecember 2018
A study involving 80 fathers of toddlers found that father child attachment tended to be stronger when fathers spent time caring for their toddler on…
The EditorDecember 2018
Transforming supermarkets, bus stops and park benches for learning through play could cut educational gulfs between rich and poor.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta M. GolinkoffDecember 2018
Governments struggle to support positive, engaged fatherhood. Macroeconomics and political science might help explain what’s delaying policy reform.
Jack O'SullivanDecember 2018
