Apologies can help improve the feelings of someone hurt.
Andrew Yee
Research shows that even four-year-olds feel better after an apology and view people who apologize as nicer than those who don’t.
Babies learn by example.
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New research has questioned the nature of humans’ impressive capacity to imitate.
How do kids develop fears?
Craig Bradshaw
When 9- to 12-month-olds with presented with two images at once – one snake and one flower – researchers found that the babies turned their heads more quickly to look at snakes than at flowers.
Early music activities?
PROPhilippe Teuwen
What effect does music have on the developing brains of babies who haven’t even learnt to talk?
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Emotional competence can help children do better at school.
California elementary school teacher doing shared reading.
Kathleen Tomscha
When you read to children, they develop abilities to express emotions through language.
A lot was already going on at the halfway point.
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If you thought babies’ babbling was just nonsense, it’s time to think again.
How do babies learn language?
Irene Zaccari
Research shows babies begin to learn language sounds before they’re even born. What about babies who hear two languages from birth? Can a baby brain specialize in two languages?
Left-handedness is no longer seen as an abnormality.
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The development of ‘handedness’ and language are closely linked.
When do girls come to like pink and boys blue?
AquaOwl
Gender is more of a flexible state than most people think. And as children, we start out thinking more flexibly about gender than we end up as adults.
A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks to the media after a former student opened fire at the school on Feb. 14, killing more than a dozen people.
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Children are increasingly being exposed to more violence. The impact? They could get desensitized to violence and come to believe that it is an acceptable way to solve problems.
It takes a while, but most children develop empathy easily.
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A child mainly learns empathy through imitating adults – yet another reason to treat others well.
Children’s ideas about what is fair can be different from those of adults.
Enoch Lai
Children have their own idea of justice, which develops fairly early. So, what’s fair sharing for children? What do they think about rewards and what is their idea of fair punishment?
Me, me, me.
Alexey Losevich
Learning how to be friendly is a longer and harder process for children than you may think.
Young children are writing even before they are reading.
Steven Yeh
Don’t dismiss children’s early writing as scribbles. Children know more about writing, even before they learn to read.
Babies show a preference for faces over other objects.
Sal
Just a few hours after birth, infants show a preference for human faces. Over the next few months, they learn from facial expressions.
Where does self-esteem in children come from?
Saulo Victor
Parents take note: most kids develop a sense of self-esteem as early as age five.
Ticklish?
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The world outside the womb is full of new sensations for a newborn. New research is explaining how they navigate it.
Easier than it looks?
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Unless young children are totally immersed in a foreign language, they actually learn it better when they’re a bit older.
Can you say ‘elephant’?
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Out research showed that motor skills in 7-month-old babies predicted the rate of language development in children that went on to develop autism spectrum disorder.