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It is quite normal for younger kids to engage in playful relationships or express interest in having crushes.
African countries seem to agree that migration can link to development outcomes, but struggle with actually implementing it.
Two experts on children’s play explain why you should be skeptical of toys that are advertised as being educational, and what to look for instead.
How should we understand what toys or ‘loose part’ materials support children’s play, and what’s the relationship of parents’ education and income to this? A study aims to find out.
Kindergartners who are relatively younger than their classroom peers are at risk for doing less well in school. A clinical psychologist explains how to reduce those problems.
All is not lost if your child has missed out on some of their usual social interaction during COVID-19. They might have actually gained something in spending more time with family.
Australia’s relationships and sex education often fails to support the personal and social development of young people.
Nigeria’s education system must embrace artificial intelligence technologies to join the fourth industrial revolution.
India requires large enterprises to spend 2% of their profits on corporate social responsibility projects. It’s a bold idea, but looks doomed to fail.
Encouraging good social skill development benefits your young child throughout their life.
Many states in Nigeria are reeling from cholera outbreaks. They need better health and sanitation infrastructure to disrupt transmission of the bacteria which cause the disease.
The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
Learning how to be friendly is a longer and harder process for children than you may think.
The world needs an alliance of leading well-being economies, a WE7, to lead it in the 21st century. It would be the first step towards a global network committed to a sustainable future for the planet.
It seems that not only mammals and birds are shaped by social interactions, with young chameleons showing their social development…
Wild bonobos, like all Great Apes, spend long childhoods with their mothers, learning the skills they need to function as socially and emotionally stable members of their community. But orphaned bonobos…
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