Understanding and nurturing parenting as the place where development happens Vision: […] But before I go, I feel I must know. What am I? Wanda Maximoff: […] You are a body of wires and blood and bone […] You are my sadness and my hope. And mostly you're my love....
As a child development researcher, I appreciate the profound impact of childhood experiences on children’s neurodevelopmental, cognitive, social, and emotional trajectories. I, like many of my colleagues, chose this career out of a deeply rooted drive to generate...
All children have human rights. Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) establishes that, for the purposes of the Convention, “a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years”. The UN Committee on the Rights of the...
Have you ever giggled at those viral videos of toddlers trying their utmost not to eat a marshmallow placed enticingly before them, having been told to wait until the grown-up returns so that they might get another? Those moments, while amusing, are actually part of a...
Background Guatemala, a Central American nation of 18 million inhabitants, boasts rich cultural, ethnic, and geographical diversity along with abundant natural and human resources. An estimated 40.19% of the total population is under the age of 18 (6.57 million...
by Leher Singh, Dean D’Souza, and Michael C. Frank Infancy researchers often seek to understand the initial state of the human mind. The goal of this research has traditionally been to identify basic principles of development common to all infants. This viewpoint...
