Like a greedy and insatiable child, OCD demands more proof in its pursuit of perfect certainty, placing unreasonable demands ...

Parents have long treated piano recitals and violin lessons as a kind of academic insurance policy, a cultural bet that ...

With families coming together for the festive season and Christmas round the corner, parents are urged to put their phones away to spend quality time with their kids. It’s an urge to live in the ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting the ...

Chemicals leaching from everyday plastic objects like baby bottles could be linked to behavioural changes in young children, a new study has warned. Scientists tracked the effects of real-world ...

The website of Ettore “Ted” DeGrazia’s Gallery in the Sun refers to him as “one of the most reproduced artists of the twentieth century.” In the 1960s, after one of DeGrazia’s paintings was chosen for ...

Six women in their 70s, all married and all mothers and grandmothers, gather twice a month without fail. They credit their close-knit families to their longstanding friendships. By Katherine Rosman ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For the second time in a little over a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

In most sports, the team or player with the highest score wins, and fans celebrate super-high-scoring games. In golf, it’s the opposite – the lowest score is the champion. And since golf scores are ...

Media and screen time are an enormous part of kids' lives today. It's everywhere. According to Common Sense Media (2017), about 95 percent of American homes with young kids have a smartphone, 78 ...

Shannon Pruden receives funding from National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development and National Science Foundation. Karinna Rodriguez does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people’s ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...