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It is a process where an adult helps a child manage a task that they couldn’t otherwise manage on their own. [Christian Dashiell – Fatherly, 22 April 2022.] READ MORE

This report offers unique insight into the extent of the learning crisis by providing an in-depth picture of which children are most at risk of not acquiring foundational learning skills.  [...]

“The best part of it has been seeing them grow and learn, seeing the differences in their personality as they get older. I want to continue to spend a lot of time with my kids.” [Gordon Haber [...]

Relationships to parents, friendship quality, socioeconomic status, and puberty onset are all linked to both cognitive and well-being outcomes. [Delia Fuhrmann, Anne-Laura van Harmelen and Rogier [...]

The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. [Meliza González, Tianna Loose, Maite Liz, Mónica Pérez, Juan I. Rodríguez- Vinçon, Clementina [...]

How much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically? [Jason Furman, [...]

Child-development researchers are investigating whether the pandemic is shaping early brain development and behaviour. [Melinda Wenner Moyer – Nature, 13 January 2022.] READ MORE

Despite schools being open in the autumn and summer terms during the 2020/21 academic year, children had not recovered from the learning they had missed during 2020 and 2021. There is still much [...]

The rapidly advancing frontiers of 21st-century biological sciences now provide compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health are also built early, with increasing evidence of the [...]