"We labor under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of life. On the contrary, the fact is that the child never learns [afterward] what it does in its ...

Article 3 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child requires member states to observe the “best interests of the child as a primary consideration in all actions concerning children, whether ...

Catching bugs and making little houses for them, obsessions with the door stopper, and a fascination with elevators and how their buttons work are some of the most interesting curiosities today’s ...

A recent study from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research shows how interests can modulate language processing in children's brains and paves the way for personalized brain research. The paper, ...