Young children may find it harder to control their attention if they use touchscreens regularly.
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The women in our study knew that play was important, although they didn’t see it as an independent behaviour to be encouraged or promoted.
Having loads of extra quality time with a toddler or preschooler and feeling flustered? Make sure you know how and where to do this basic disciplinary method the right way.
A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
One of the concerns parents have if their baby needs surgery is whether the general anaesthetic will affect the child’s developing brain. New research finds it won’t.
An author picks her best reads for a scientific approach to raising children.
Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos are finely tuned in to the developing minds of toddlers.
Middle ear infections (otitis media) are a common and often painful condition that
most children will experience at least once in their first year.
Touchscreen technologies have made it easy for children as young as four to go online. Here are some things to teach them about how to be safe on the internet.
Tantrum throwing peaks at age two, as children experience the perfect storm of not being able to express themselves verbally while simultaneously developing their sense of autonomy and independence.
Opening the minds of worried new parents to other ways of raising children may assuage fears that if they fail to ‘do the right thing,’ their children will be doomed.
Children start to demonstrate self-awareness as they approach their second birthday – and it helps them to learn.
British toddlers are heading for health problems, unless we change their diet now.
New research shows shared music-making with toddlers may have benefits above and beyond those of reading.
Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
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Lecturer Nutrition Sciences, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Head of Ear and Hearing Health, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Curtin University
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