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We tested the hypothesis that an environment with fewer toys will lead to higher quality of play for toddlers. Each participant (n = 36) engaged in... (2017)
Telecoms regulator says kids' smartwatches are spying devices and are to be banned under German law. (2017)
TechCrunch, 2017: “What do you get if you endlessly recombine Spiderman and the Joker with Elsa from Frozen and lashings of product placement for ... (2017)
Issue 53: Monsters - Nautilus, 2016: "The science of the wandering mind. very emotion has a purpose—an evolutionary benefit,” says Sandi Mann, a ... (2017)
Issue 40: Learning - Nautilus, 2016: "Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does. To me this symbolizes all th... (2017)
Why your outdated brain is making you unhappy and how to hack it. (2017)
The New York Times, headlining their article on a subset of this issue “On YouTube Kids, Startling Videos Slip Past Filters”, highlights the use of... (2017)
The Guardian: "Musical training can have a dramatic impact on your brain’s structure, enhancing your memory, spatial reasoning and language skills (2016)
The Atlantic, 2017: "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, t... (2017)
Pencil and Paper Games is devoted to games you can play with nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper. These games are ideal for entertainin... (2017)
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude (2017)
Step One: Back Off. Child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses who change the world. Originality is difficult to encourage but easy to thwart (2017)
How College Consultants Invent Perfect Ivy League Applicants. Elite educational consultants like Command Education charge upwards of $120,000 a y... (2024)
As a child goes through changes in adolescence, parents must also change how they communicate with their kids. (2021)
Tucked in, snuggled up, I still remember the hours I spent listening to my mother read aloud “The Hobbit.” I must have been about 8-years-old, and ... (2021)
November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, fo... (2020)
Chances are, there's something on this list you're missing. (2017)
Writing, as opposed to typing, has been shown to improve memory and learning capacity, yet in some countries it’s being phased out in favour of dig... (2020)
Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when adult... (2020)
My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I. (2020)
If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 sim... (2019)
Parents share a roof but see little of teenagers who have adopted vampire schedules; ‘Sometimes, my dad just wants me to wake up for no reason.” (2020)
Psychologist Marlene Major believes adolescents can benefit from defininig this moment for themselves. Younger kids, however, do better with struct... (2020)
Because of coronavirus, teenagers are missing out on major rites of passage. Offering compassion paves their way toward feeling better. (2020)
Today, we're announcing Primer. Our goal is simple: free the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and think for themselves... (2020)
Less than two months after $150 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, educational gaming platform Roblox is seeing surging usage f... (2020)
How not fitting in can lead to creative thinking For many people, that effect starts in childhood. When Arnold M. Ludwig, an adjunct psychiatry ... (2020)
Before you can tell them that you got a C- in geography or that you once thought the word XING on the road was pronounced “Zing,” your children wil... (2020)
In American schools, bullying is like the dark cousin to prom, student elections, or football practice: Maybe you weren’t involved, but you knew t... (2016)
The relationship between people and the state has allowed an effective national programme to cut the rates of teenagers smoking and drinking to exc... (2020)
Bill Gates and Washington State Teacher of the Year Camille Jones shars an engineering lesson (2017)
YouTube Video, Sprouts, 2017 by Barbara Oakley: "According to learning expert Dr. Oakley it can hold only 4 chunks of information at once. So when... (2017)
"Learning How to Learn", Coursera, Dr. Barbara Oakley, University of California, San Diego "how to make a chunk. If you're learning to play a di... (2017)
Kids are more anxious and depressed than ever. Is identity politics to blame? (2023)
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lyt... (2021)
There are four widely researched styles of parenting: authoritative, permissive, authoritarian, and neglectful. The styles range from controlling t... (2021)
With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properti... (2020)
A 37-year old mom goes undercover as an 11-year old girl to expose the dangers facing kids on social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, TikT... (2020)
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lyt... (2019)
Stop Wasting Time! This is Jordan Peterson's Ultimate Advice for Students, College Grads, and Everyone Alive! ►If you struggle and have a hard time... (2019)
Join in as Tom, Sam, and Zee share their picks for best games to take on a camping trip! Check out the friendliest conventions on Earth! Dice Tower... (2018)
Tom Vasel lists his Top 10 games for preschool aged children! Check out the friendliest conventions on Earth! Dice Tower Con! (2018)
Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in 90% of US schools. Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dors... (2018)
The School of Life Published on Apr 11, 2013 LECTURE @THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: Sir Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary ca... (2018)
TED Published on Mar 26, 2009 With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. I... (2018)
Using video games to foster community and social interaction. Meet the father who created a Minecraft community for people with autism. Stuart Dun... (2018)
Y Combinator, Jan 24, 2018 Sam Chaudhary is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo. They've raised $30M and have 30 employees. Karen Lien - is an ... (2018)
Life does NOT happen to you, it happens FOR you. Many things in life are outside of our control, but the way we respond to events can shape our rea... (2018)
Listen to this episode from The Joe Pomp Show on Spotify. IMG Academy sold for $1.25 billion this past April, putting an exclamation mark on the ma... (2023)
Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I explain how nicotine impacts the brain and body, including its potent ability to enhance attention, foc... (2022)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
Listen to this episode from The Knowledge Project on Spotify. Angela Duckworth is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the Univ... (2021)
When Tracy Edwards was expelled from school, she wound up working on boats. That led her to form a record-breaking all-female sailing crew, which c... (2020)
Avni Patel Thompson founded Poppy, which helped parents book the best caregivers. They went through the YC Winter 2016 batch and recently shut down... (2019)
According to a team of Harvard researchers, the key to addressing the achievement gap lies in connecting parents' natural instincts with what we kn... (2018)
Maya kids do better on tests measuring attention, researchers say it's because these kids have something that many American kids have lost. (2018)
It doesn't just keep them entertained. New research highlights an unexpected positive impact — and also shows that when a parent sings to a child, ... (2018)
Grit book. Read 5,351 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psy... (2020)
Strengths Finder 2.0 has 37,046 ratings and 1,795 reviews. Jean said: Starts with a cool idea: instead of spending time trying to get better at thi... (2018)
Discover kid friendly homes away from home. We have a growing list of family-friendly vacation destinations from across the globe. Check them out now! (2019)
Browse Curious Kids news, research and analysis from The Conversation (2018)