One minute your child is the baby in your arms, and the next minute, they’ve just landed their first job. The weird thing about parenting is that if you do it right, you eventually put yourself out of ...

Children reach developmental milestones in how they play, move, talk, and act. The predicted ages for the milestones can be helpful in planning for parents. The motor milestone for babies being able ...

Industry versus inferiority is the fourth stage of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, which occurs after the third stage of initiative versus guilt. The fourth stage occurs during ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Talent progression, from novice to extraordinary, goes through three stages. You need to understand how talent and skills evolve to support your child to become exceptional at something. Talent ...

Babies start off wildly dependent and grow very quickly in the first three years of life. Because they change so rapidly, this period comes with its own stages of parent/caregiver development too: The ...

Researchers have identified nearly 20,000 new or known drug side effects in children across developmental stages and made them freely available to other researchers. Side effects from pediatric drug ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study ...

Playtime isn’t just all fun and games. Kids learn important developmental and social skills through playing with others and by themselves. Associative play is one of the six stages of play — a ...

Sigmund Freud developed a five-stage model of human development, each stage with its own characteristics and challenges. Not only was this a useful way of viewing our growth, but he believed that ...