Parents can gain a lot from the adaptability that children may demonstrate. Watching how children recover from small failures ...

A "transformation" is upon us. After a multi-year procession of educational technology products that once promised to shake ...

Positive declarations can enhance a child's academic and emotional development, resilience and overall well-being.

Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Your guidance can help your kids learn to recognize and care about other people's feelings from a young age. Get started with six tips from experts.

After-school programs are when structure, safety, and belonging matter most for children. That was the message the Children’s ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

Building on the first volume and second volume, this third volume on ‘How Children Learn from Parents and Parenting Others in Formal and Informal Settings: ...