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The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in ...

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From Piaget’s stages to Vygotsky’s social learning and Erikson’s life-span psychosocial stages, developmental theories offer unique lenses on how children grow. Each framework shapes how we understand ...

For the parents of toddlers, pediatricians should encourage anticipatory guidance focused on autonomy — such as letting ...

I’m going to say my opinion plainly: ideally, infants and young children would not be exposed to devices and digital media at all — not because screens are “evil”, but because early development is ...

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TO GRASP THE stakes of economic growth, start with the arithmetic of compounding. Over two generations an economy growing at about 1% a year will not even double in size; one growing at 7% will expand ...

This post was co-authored by Elzbieta Vitkauskaite and Ayten Bilgin. Every child has meltdowns. Every child gets distracted. Every child pushes boundaries. But some children experience these moments ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Children and Youth received a one-year $14.7 million federal grant to support young children’s readiness for school. Ohio is one of 23 states awarded the ...