This mom shares why questions about her son's walking milestone are upsetting and asks the experts for advice on how to ...

Development can be thought of as a journey. The journey begins at conception with a genetic roadmap to guide the way. As this journey continues through predictable stages of birth, infancy, childhood, ...

When it comes to understanding motor skills and language development, it’s important to understand the context in which an individual child is growing up. For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often ...

Few stages are as important for the proper development of a child as the sexual stages. Because children are experiencing something profoundly new and unexpected (even if it is actually radically old ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services describes behavioral disorders as involving “a pattern of disruptive behaviors in children that last for at least 6 months and cause problems in school ...

Parenting is hard. The persistent, compounding stressors of child care, schoolwork, bills and employment affect all families regardless of income or immigration status. As a result of the COVID-19 ...

Every parent has this moment at some point or another: that quiet certainty that your child isn't telling the truth. As serious a breach of trust as it can feel, experts agree it's normal child ...

Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, 40, is a pretty, jolly woman upon whose slim shoulders rests the imposing title of Director of the Normal Child Development Study of the Department of Pediatrics of Columbia ...