When Does Your Baby Recognise Their Name (and Your Naming Genius)?
The moment your baby starts recognising their name is a significant developmental milestone — a sign that their language skills are beginning to take shape. Whe...
First Goodbye: Easing Separation Anxiety for Working Parents
Your anxiety isn’t going to go away just because you’re convinced your kid can survive for 10 hours a day without you. So, you thought that new dad ...
Kids in families with too much screen time struggle with language skills
Screen devices are everywhere: we use them for entertainment, connection, and critical day-to-day functions. But Estonian scientists find that screens can have ...
Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
« Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species, » says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores t...
Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language
Researchers have found that babies don’t start processing the individual sounds of speech—known as phonetic information—reliably until they’re around seven mont...