A baby's first year brings incredible change. In just a few months, babies go from cooing and crawling to making sense of language in ways researchers are only starting to understand. One mystery has ...

Some say laughter is good for the soul. It turns out it can help with learning too. A new study by researchers in Paris found ...

Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

Babies as young as eight months old can adapt their learning style to changing situations, according to research by Francesco Poli of the Donders Institute at Radboud University. This is the first ...

If you've ever said you just "have no rhythm," it turns out you might not have any excuse. A new study found that infants can recognize and learn the rhythm of music within just 48 hours of first ...

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what infants learn before they are born. At the core of her work is the idea that ...

Did you know that a baby's brain grows faster in the first three years of life than at any other time? By the age of three, it has already reached nearly 80 percent of its adult size. Every time you ...

Many basic life skills seem harder for children to master now compared to the past. Some teachers think this is because of an ...

Like many parents of young children, I tend to think of TV as junk food and books as vegetables. I try to limit the amount of time my kids spending watching television, but I don't similarly try to ...