Most people would not consider “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble” to be a nursery rhyme. But Utah children’s author Jennifer Adams does. Adams and illustrator Alison ...

One thing I’ve always been fascinated with is the fact really young children don’t seem to remember a big chunk of their formative years. My earliest memory, for instance, is when I was about three ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Jena Pincott, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Lovers-Have-Sweeter-Babies/dp/1439183341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314293927&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Do ...

In 1993 an appealing idea took new parents by storm. Playing classical music to babies would make them smarter, according to a paper published in the journal Nature. The study showed that a few dozen ...

Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked his peers and the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after serving three years in a Chinese prison for practicing ...

Like many parents of young children, I tend to think of TV as junk food and books as vegetables. I try to limit the amount of time my kids spending watching television, but I don't similarly try to ...