About one-third of women using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it?
We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read.
- By Jean Twenge
Major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12% in 2011 to 20% in 2017.
With art, you have all the colours in the world to share your thoughts,” wrote one youth in the Holistic Arts-based Program at Laurentian University.
- By Nuria Mackes
The human brain goes through dramatic developmental changes in the first years of life. During this period it is particularly sensitive to environmental influences.
The school year is over and holidays are upon us. But that doesn’t mean your children’s learning experiences can’t continue.
A common childhood fear is fear of the dark. Many children become terrified of the dark and can't go to sleep in a darkened room alone, convinced the "bogeyman" or some other night creature is waiting in the shadows to get them. I had a client whose son was terrified...
Disturbing events related to cyberbullying in recent months and years have raised great concern among parents, youths and educators regarding the everyday lives of children in online spaces
Disappointment is a natural human emotion that occurs after a perceived failure.
Imagination and play encourage children to think through hypothetical situations and create new worlds
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian children’s fitness seen over the past 35 years
- By Luke Zaphir
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge.
December is considered the most fertile month, a time when there’s the greatest likelihood that children will be conceived. Some experts even pinpoint Dec. 11 as the most fertile day.
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has made headlines not just for her passionate climate activism, but because she is outspoken about having autism.
- By Kiara Lewis
For some school children, PE is the best lesson of the week – a chance to leave the desk behind, get outside, and enjoy a run around with friends.
Schools began to introduce fluorescent lighting in the mid 1950s and rows of these low cost, long life, high efficacy lamps tend to be the lighting of choice in many schools around the world.
Parents are often their children’s first literacy teachers. They oversee children signing their names on artwork and read storybooks with their kids.
If you have kids, chances are you’ve worried about their presence on social media.
Kids seem to learn about the idea of hypocrisy early in elementary school, new research suggests.
- By Ana Aznar
Only children get a bad rap. They are often perceived as selfish, spoiled, anxious, socially inept and lonely. And my profession, psychology, may be partly to blame for these negative stereotypes.
When we are born, our brains have a lot to learn. For the newborn baby, everything they learn about the world around them comes from their senses.
Perhaps evolution’s most wondrous manifestation is visible in the unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand.
We use anger in disciplining our children because we become upset by what they do, and we then become angry. But when we mix the 'lesson' with our anger, we end up teaching our child that it's okay to respond with anger to things that upset us. When we respond with anger, the child learns anger.