Screen time may slow learning skills, study finds
Screens are a part of daily life for many families—but too much screen time in the early years could slow a child's language development, a new study suggests.
Jul 7, 2025
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms: News and Research on Child Development
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Dad's mental health linked to kid's well-being
Dads with poor mental health may be impacting the development of their kids, with Australian research linking mental distress in fathers to poorer social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development in their kids. ...
Jun 16, 2025
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Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages
There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.
Jun 10, 2025
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Is there a right way to talk to your baby? A baby brain expert explains 'parentese'
You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or caregivers engage in long "talks" with young babies about this and that—usually just fun chit chat of no great consequence.
Jun 2, 2025
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School dinners may encourage picky teenagers to eat better, says new study
Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky-eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are published in the Journal of ...
May 15, 2025
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Infants as young as 15 months can learn new words for unseen objects
Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word's meaning.
Apr 23, 2025
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Study links executive function to language skills in young children
A young child's ability to regulate behavior—a component of executive functioning, the cognitive processes that help with planning, focus, and self-control—is related to how they process and acquire language, according to ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Why do children use loopholes? New research explains the development of intentional misunderstandings in children
Most people are familiar with loopholes. When your boss, landlord, partner, customer, or government asks you to do something you don't want to do, and yet you can't say "no," you may resort to malicious compliance—doing what ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Good parenting helps, but has limits under major deprivation
Good parenting can make all the difference as newborns learn to communicate and process information, and an increasing amount of early-childhood development research has shown that parent training is a worthy investment to ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Excessive screen time linked to lower language development in toddlers
A collaboration of researchers from 20 nations has found that toddlers exceed recommended screen time limits, with television and smartphones being the most frequently used devices. Higher screen exposure was associated with ...
