Parents and educators sometimes avoid having conversations about grief with children because they don’t know what to say. Here are some tips for how to approach it.
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Virtual reality might seem like an unlikely way to help kids develop empathy, but the right VR environment can do just that.
By the time children start school ‘they have the rudiments of adult swearing’, including about 40 taboo words.
The ways in which school closings affect children are just beginning to be known, but early indications are they’re taking a negative toll on kids’ learning and overall well-being.
Good mental health is the ability to adapt to changes and stress. Whatever school looks like, parents can help keep kids’ social-emotional development on track in these four areas.
New research shows that children who are kind, supportive and understanding influence their siblings to act and behave in similar ways.
Using simple strategies, parents and teachers can help stimulate linguistic and other cognitive development in children.
Kangaroo mother care: the long-term benefits of closeness in the early days of life.
Parents take note: most kids develop a sense of self-esteem as early as age five.
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Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education and Director of the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Lecturer in Education, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor Mathematics, Acting Head of the School of Education (Victoria) Australian Catholic University, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Lecturer, Indigenous Education, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Wayne State University
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