TUESDAY, May 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- From their first smile to their first step to the first day of school, children go through a remarkable transformation on their way to adulthood. Here, ...

Physical fitness, physical activity and screen time are associated with brain mechanisms underlying mental health and ...

Piaget’s stages of development include sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. While there is some criticism of them, they may help characterize child development.

Babies start off wildly dependent and grow very quickly in the first three years of life. Because they change so rapidly, this period comes with its own stages of parent/caregiver development too: The ...

In last Friday’s column, I shared the first three stages of personality development by Erick Erickson (1902-1994.) I believe that parents can use his psychosocial stages of development as a guide in ...

New Australian research show importance of Dads in early child development. June 17, 2011— -- Dads play roughhousing with their young children is crucially important in the early development of ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves. Once ...

The UK government's strategy for early years education in England aims to get children in reception "school-ready." But what ...