Babies still too small to speak know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers at an Australian university who have spent two years filming thebehaviour of young children.
Many parents admit that they refuse to read fairy tales to their children because they consider classics are too scary for them, according to a new study.
Are you a parent with hectic schedules and odd work timings? Night creches are now here to help you out. Shreya Sethuraman reports.
Corporal punishment makes children more aggressive and can harm them in the long term, says a study. Physical punishment is also associated with a variety of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety and use of drugs and alcohol.
School children whose mothers nurtured them lovingly have a larger hippocampus, a key brain area vital for learning, memory and response to stress. A study shows changes in this critical region of children's brain anatomy are linked to a mother's nurturing.
Children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought, a new study has found. Researchers at Queen’s University changed the vowel sounds that the participants heard over headphones as they talked.
Leading a physically active lifestyle may improve academic performance in children, a new study involving an Indian origin scientist suggests.
Nearly one million children across the world aged 7-12 have become addicted to social networking website Facebook and log in at least once a day, says a survey.
The foetus growing inside the mother’s womb not only hears her heartbeat or the music she might play to her belly, but also gets signals about her mental state, which affects the baby’s development post birth.
Most children, who are sensitive to bitterness, often run away from eating greens but adding a small amount of dip to their serving of vegetables can tempt them to eating more of them.
As Delhi’s beloved Appu Ghar gears up for a re-launch, we look at other popular amusement parks in the Capital
Watching fast-paced cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants harms young children’s ability to concentrate, solve problems and behave with self-control, psychologists have warned.
Are you addcited to Facebook? Beware! A leading neuroscientist has cautioned that overuse of technology, like computer games and Facebook, is extremely dangerous for kids and may lead to temporary ‘dementia’.
Fruit drinks marketed with tall claims of providing hydration to children contain as little as 5 per cent fruit, while some others have none at all, health experts have claimed. And they have too much sugar...
British youngsters are ditching Dickens, Shakespeare and Keats for Facebook and Twitter, with one in six failing to read a single book in a month, according to a survey. The poll also showed less than half the youngsters choose to read a book outside of class...