21 September 2022
Emerging research suggests that, alongside genes and environment, much of who we become is down to chance occurrences in the developing brain. Does that mean parents are off the hook?
24 August 2022
Most children can fold a paper plane, but Alom Shaha prefers paper helicopters – and they are better for experimenting with
20 December 2021
The size of a child’s hippocampus can be limited by stress, and US state welfare schemes that give families $500 a month or more are linked to a reduction in this association
10 April 2021
A pioneering trial is giving mothers in poverty either a large or small cash gift each month for several years to find out whether a basic income changes a baby's brain and development
17 July 2019
Flawed stereotypes abound about bossy firstborns, middle-child syndrome and only children, but the true influence of sibling sequence is much stranger
18 December 2018
Tantalising evidence hints that key human innovations including the wheel and weaving were the outcome of, quite literally, child's play
20 June 2018
The psychological and physical effects of serious trauma are likely to impact the children being separated from their families at the US border for years
23 May 2018
Men carry chemical clues to childhood traumas in their sperm, and these might be passed down to their sons – but we don’t know what effects these have yet
21 March 2018
When Anna Machin realised science was skewed towards mums, she set out to change that - and discovered fatherhood comes with a raft of changes to the mind and body
13 December 2017
The wind is alive, heat flows and the sun moves across the sky – childish intuitions shape our world, and can skew views on things like climate change
