Kids Zone

Hospitalised kids to get entertainment as van with toys and books begins making rounds from June.

From excavating artefacts to spotting butterflies, parents can choose from a host of creative workshops to keep their children gainfully occupied this summer vacation. Renuka Rao and Pankti Mehta reports.

Mumbai now has a Junior Football Club (JFC) on the lines of the Little Leagues in South Africa and the US.

Some children may have memory and attention problems up to a year after a concussion, issues that can be tied to a lower quality of life and an increased risk of needing extra help in school, according to a U.S. study.

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.