For some parents, apps offer a practical way of keeping tabs on one’s family. But many children and teenagers experience it is as unwelcome surveillance.
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These wartime abductions aren’t specific to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Throughout history, they’ve inflicted trauma on society’s most vulnerable – making them a rich subject matter for the stage.
It’s important that citizen science projects engage volunteers from across society, including young people. A new Australian initiative is doing just that.
Child sponsorship is often billed as a significant way of improving children’s lives. However, sponsorship is based on narratives that fail to address the role of rich countries in global poverty.
Where is the justice for young people whose mental health is impacted by being incarcerated?
Canada ranks 30th out of 38 wealthy nations in supporting the mental health and well-being of children. The need to invest in and prioritize mental health for children and young people is urgent.
Children and youth in care are more likely to have experienced trauma that can affect future health. A comprehensive, trauma-informed health strategy for these children and youth is long overdue.
A professor of child development explains why it’s OK – recommended, in fact – to respond to an infant’s every cry, sob and whimper.
A sports culture that does not tolerate abuse of any kind needs to be cultivated to ensure that the benefits of participating in sports are achieved.
If parents prefer to associate with other parents, what does that mean for people who have decided against having kids?
The impact of using electronic devices is critical during the first years of life, both visually and on the cognitive and social development of the child.
How to make a ‘fortune teller’ or ‘chatterbox’ with children, and why the paper activity targets many developmental domains at once.
A new study shows how teamwork, empathy and grit – all components of resilience – can be developed through group music making.
Think about how your child might feel in the future.
Adding COVID-19 to a list of ‘designated diseases’ will not make vaccination mandatory for school entry. But it may help increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children.
The baby drop box is a revival of centuries-old cultural practices from the Italian Renaissance when reproductive rights were zero.
Though child marriage rates are declining globally, the practice remains worryingly common in some African countries.
Early childhood development principals aren’t just educators: they’re also managers and business people, and those skills are critical.
Children deserve agency in decisions that affect them, but adults are ultimately responsible for making decisions in children’s best interests.
What do we love about seeing children perform? And how do their performances shape our understanding of childhood?
Top contributors
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Elizabeth Handsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development, Staffordshire University
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, York University, Canada
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
