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

It turns out that those lacking common sense simply weren’t taught how to harness it in their younger years. In a talk with Newsweek, the lead psychologist at University of Verm ...

Here's what parents should know about affirmation and how it can help nurture positive growth and development among children.

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

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 ...

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 ...