From the Yale University press release: Settling on a parenting style is challenging. Is it better to be strict or more lenient? Have helicopter parents found the right approach to guiding their children’s choices? A new…
From the PLOS press release: Postpartum affective disorder (AD), including postpartum depression (PPD), affects more than one in two hundred women with no history of prior psychiatric episodes, and raises the risk of later affective…
From the Penn State press release: Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their environment, according to a team of researchers. In a…
From the University of Amsterdam press release: How do children construct views of themselves and their place in the world? Children’s social relationships turn out to be critical. For example, children develop higher self-esteem when their…
From the University of Arizona press release: Few parents want their children to hear them arguing, but since conflict is a normal part of any relationship, it can be hard to shield little ones from every…
From the American Academy of Pediatrics press release: Most research on cyberbullying has focused on adolescents. But a new study that examined cell phone ownership among children in third to fifth grades finds they may…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A new study from MIT reveals that babies as young as 15 months can learn to follow this…
From the University at Buffalo press release: A new study by scientists in the University at Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions has shown that pregnant smokers are more likely to quit if they can learn to…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: A new study suggests that while healthy preterm children have more medical sleep problems than full-term children, they are more likely to fall asleep independently. Results show…
From the Frontiers press release: Researchers confirm that when 4-6 year old children learn how to solve a puzzle using a touchscreen tablet, they can then apply this learning to the same puzzle in the…