Diverse beliefs, practices and purposes of children’s play in different cultures call for skepticism that Euro-American approaches to child development are best everywhere. Our knowledge…
Professor Jaipaul L. RoopnarineOctober 2018
Children with siblings who displays more empathy are likely to develop more empathy themselves, finds a new early childhood development study. A recent social development…
The EditorOctober 2018
Long-term impacts of play deprivation during early child development include isolation, depression, reduced self-control and poor resilience. Educators, parents and policy makers should all be…
Stuart BrownOctober 2018
The arts, such as music, painting and drawing, theatre and dance, involve a variety of activities that are developmentally significant for children—for example, paying attention,…
The EditorDecember 2017
In the last 30 years, researchers have identified a particular set of characteristics in 2- to 3-year-olds that are associated with extreme antisocial behavior later…
The EditorApril 2017
A combination of parental warmth and strong parental supervision reduces the link in first-time male young offenders between a lack of remorse, guilt and empathy…
The EditorJanuary 2017
Targeting prevention efforts at the entire peer group supports expression of anti-bullying attitudes and makes it harder for bullying to carry on. Schools’ anti-bullying strategies…
Dr Silja SaarentoDecember 2015
