Tag: Childhood development
States sue Meta for knowingly hurting teens with Facebook and Instagram...
Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against Meta on Oct....
Facebook has known for a year and a half that Instagram...
Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky
Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the...
Teaching kids social responsibility – like how to settle fights and...
Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Josafa da Cunha, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil)
The Research Brief...
3 ways to promote social skills in homebound kids
Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
With the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic getting worse in most of the country, a growing number of school districts...
5 reasons to make sure recess doesn’t get short shrift when...
Rebecca London, University of California, Santa Cruz and William Massey, Oregon State University
Once children return to school for the first time since the coronavirus...
Why are kids asking such big questions during the pandemic?
Jana Mohr Lone, University of Washington
Why do people have to die?
Are mistakes always bad?
Can you be happy and sad at the same time?
Kids often...
Why do Americans say ‘bay-zle’ and the English say ‘baa-zle’?
Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an...
Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and...
Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida
More than 40 years ago, psychologist Sandra Scarr put forth a provocative idea: that genetic influence on children’s cognitive abilities...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
