Experts tell Newsweek why parents should let kids make mistakes, learn from experience, and even face a few natural consequences.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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

As a parent, a caregiver, a teacher, or even just a citizen of the world, what kind of people do you hope that today’s children grow up to be? Amid a life-altering pandemic and deep political ...