From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: Children who have experienced violence might really be older than their years. The DNA of 10-year-olds who experienced violence in their young lives has been found to…
From the University of Sydney press release via Physorg: The precarious decline in children’s participation in mathematics can only be reversed by tackling a complex mix of factors, including positive and negative attitudes of a…
From the University of Copenhagen press release: Together with child and adolescent psychiatrists, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just completed an extensive report which reviews the studies which have been done so far…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Give me the child at 3 and I will give you the adult compulsive gambler. That is the striking finding of a new study in Psychological Science,…
From the University of Buffalo press release via EurekAlert!: In an age when even preschoolers have electronic toys and devices, many parents wonder how to get their children to be more physically active. Now, two…
From the University of Liverpool press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that children who have experienced severe trauma are three times as likely to develop schizophrenia in later life.…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: A new study shows that low-income preschoolers who are at risk for developing reading problems can improve their reading skills if they’re read…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Sleep problems are common in young children and can lead to difficulties in families. Several factors likely contribute to these problems, and mothers’…
From the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) via MedicalXPress: Parents who play with a doll and then ignore their child, elicit the same jealous behavior in the child as a newborn brother or sister…