Developmental psychologists like Catarina Vales want to know how kids understand the world. Like all researchers, she relies on tools designed to assess how children learn. Though those tests and ...

"'Gentle parenting' is sort of amorphous and has no single definition," Dr. Pressman explains. However, she understands the general parenting style that falls under this designation, and she has some ...

There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Western, ...

It's easy to want to be the perfect parent when you have kids, but making mistakes as a parent is pretty natural. In fact, it's part of the equation for raising successful kids, developmental ...

Here’s a fact that you likely wouldn’t have believed when you were a child: parents aren’t perfect. Far from it, in fact, as you may understand yourself as a parent now. Whether it’s punishment ...