Amazon Kindle Publication environment surrounding children has changed significantly over the past few decades. The nature of ...

Research shows that a balance of warmth, structure and age-appropriate expectations can support healthy development.

I recently attended a seminar on child development. The theme was physical development, play, and how to interact with children according to their developmental stages. It was an opportunity to learn ...

Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong in a child’s development. In the field of child psychology, we call them adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Some ACEs include natural disasters, loss of a loved ...

Why do we study anxiety as a multi-faceted construct? Does it matter to our phenomenology, how we experience this emotion, and how we behave? This begs the question: What matters most in the study of ...

There are many key themes in child development. This blog covers the role of families in child development, looking at parenting as a team around children (“coparenting”) and how it operates in the ...

For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to base our thinking on a child’s development around what we understand as “normal”. Much of the time we do this without thinking, describing a ...

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development. A Save the Children report released Tuesday found that children in ...

Are our children like the bird inside the cage in Rabindranath Tagore's Tota Kahini? In Tota Kahini, a parrot is considered uneducated and is placed under the care of learned people. A magnificent ...