For the most part, children are natural, prolific, and happy daydreamers, and the process plays an important role in their developing lives. Too often, however, parents and teachers are quick to label ...

Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist, mental health expert, and author of How to Help Your Child Clean up Their Mental Mess Just as older generations have had to navigate the internet and social media, ...

Middle child syndrome is the idea that if you are neither the oldest nor the youngest child in a family, you get less attention from your parents and feel “caught in the middle,” according to WebMD.

In our fast-paced digital world, children face unprecedented challenges to their mental health. From academic pressures to social media comparisons, young minds are constantly processing complex ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer by day, Comic by night, who aims to inform, inspire, and amuse. For neurodivergent children, traditional educational ...

Patricia Jovellar Isiegas is a member of the Spanish Association of Occupational Therapists for Children and Adolescents (TOP-es). Many children have intense reactions to certain sounds or food ...

Mirror writing, a phenomenon wherein children produce reversed letters or whole words, is both a normal phase of writing development and a focal point for understanding the interplay between ...