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Top Learning Apps for Kids May Not Live Up To Their Promise
A new study analyzed some of the most downloaded educational apps for kids, using a set of four criteria designed to evaluate whether an app provides a high-quality educational experience for children. The findings show
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Your Pandemic Baby’s Coming Out Party
… Even grandparents, aunts or uncles in the same country as babies born during Covid-19 have been kept away by travel restrictions and other precautions. Darby Saxbe, an associate professor at the University of Southern
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Psychologist Adam Grant: This is One of the Most Harmful Questions Parents Can Ask Their Kids—Here’s Why
What do you want to be when you grow up? As a kid, that was my least favorite question. I dreaded conversations with parents and other adults because they always asked it — and no
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How the Pandemic is Changing Children’s Friendships
Just one year ago, kids could hold their friends’ hands. They shared blankets at sleepovers. They clustered around birthday cakes to help blow out the candles. And now they don’t. Many things in our pandemic-stricken
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How Schools Can Reduce Excessive Discipline of Black Students
Anne Gregory remembers the child’s fondness for the Dewey decimal system. He would write down a combination of numbers and letters on a scrap of paper and hunt down the desired book in the library.
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Worried About Your Toddler Right Now? Take a Deep Breath
As Ashlyn Atigre prepared to take her healthy son to the pediatrician for his 3-year-old well visit recently, a nagging concern was on her mind. “I want to talk about the social impact of the