Preschool years are a period of rapid brain development. By the age of five, a child's brain is approximately 90 percent of its adult size, highlighting the importance of this developmental window in ...

Raising a child looks different for every generation. Amy Elliott, chief clinical research officer at Avera Research Institute, understands how quickly new science and research can change ideas that ...

Screen time use by infants, toddlers and preschoolers has exploded over the last decade, concerning experts about the impact of television, tablets and smartphones on these critical years of rapid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research supports the view that the effects of the pandemic on preschoolers' development are not so dire. (Photo illustration: ...

New neuroscience research reveals how our brains evolve through key life stages, highlighting the hidden strengths of aging.

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed the Healthy Early Development and Screen Time Act, limiting electronic screen access in ...

High-quality preschool classrooms have at least two trained adults teaching students, managing playtime and encouraging children. A new national report shows that many pre-K programs struggle to ...

In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers suggest that younger children may face fewer challenges than initially feared. Researchers in Canada used data from the Ontario Birth Study ...