How can parents help children navigate through a diverse world?

Sleep is a vital aspect of a child's general health, but it can also influence their behaviour.

As children return to school, two issues are rising to the top of their parents' concerns: the impact of social media and the internet on children's lives.

A recent study suggested that a diet created to assist prevent cognitive decline in adults may also help increase attention in preadolescents. Future nutritional programmes aiming at enhancing children's cognition may benefit from the findings.

According to new research, young children who frequently experience harsh discipline from their parents are much more likely to experience long-lasting mental health issues.

The study shed new light on the persistent and early emerging disparities in education linked to socioeconomic status (SES).

In marriages, conflict is unavoidable. When it explodes in families with children, worried or furious parents may project their anger or withdraw emotionally or physically from their children. In the worst-case situation, children's socioemotional development may suffer. According to a recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, how parents, particularly men, deal with marital problems can have an impact on their children.

Some studies have shown father-child relationships may be more impacted by conflict than mother-child relationships, and can lead to negative development for kids

A new study published in the journal Child Development by researchers from Boston College in Massachusetts and the University of Queensland in Australia analyses whether four- to nine-year-old children consider their own prior behaviours while making moral judgements about others.

A new study published in the journal Child Development by researchers at Boston College in Massachusetts, USA, and the University of Queensland in Australia investigates whether four- to nine-year-old children evaluate their own previous actions when developing moral judgements about others.

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language abilities in the first three years of a child's life, according to research presented at the 25th European Congress of Endocrinology in Istanbul. The findings help us understand how cortisol influences foetal and newborn development.