Childhood Development

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

This article explains how brain chemisty is responsible for learned knowledge functions.

A seven-year-old who experiences the death of a classmate needs empathy, kindness, and understanding.

Find information on ways to promote social skills in your preschooler.

Whenever possible, it's always healthier to let kids work out their differences without the intervention of adults/parents.

A parent wonders if she should be concerned about her son's "perverse nature."

How do you know when it's the right time to break the news that Santa isn't real?

After losing her husband to a horrible battle with cancer, a mother wonders how to help her traumatized son.

Kids this age do not need to have "best friends" to be developing socially.

When a child seem young for his age, his teachers should be able to individualize in a way that will make the boy feel good about himself.

A child may have the intellectual ability to skip ahead in school, but his social aptitude may be lacking.

Our expert gives some advice on how to help a young man deal with the loss of his father.

Head rocking is a relatively common activity between three and four years of age. Find out what to do if it persists.

Is it cause for concern when a six-year-old boy enjoys "cross-dressing"?

No matter how "cool" a nice pair of glasses look on a teen, he may have trouble suddenly looking like a "four-eyes."

If a father thinks that displays of emotion are unmanly or wimpy, his young son will learn to hide his feelings.

An expert explains why punishing a child for refusing to sleep in his own bedroom will not change his behavior.

Nystagmus is a sign or a symptom of a problem in the brain and/or the nervous system. A pediatric neurologist should be consulted.

Questions about an orthopedic disability warrant a second opinion from a health care expert in the same area of specialty.