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Are Environmental Factors to Blame for Autism?
Autism affects one in every 150 children born today in the U.S., a more than threefold increase from ten years ago. A variety of studies try to explain why Dear EarthTalk: What's going on with all the...
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Child's Play
New study suggests gambling addiction can be predicted as early as kindergarten Parents of hyperactive kindergarteners, beware! According to researchers from the Université de Montréal in Canada, your...
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Babies Recognize Each Other's Moods, Study Says
Science Babies know when other babies are behaving badly. Now if only they could scold each other... When I used to babysit my infant niece, I often panicked when she started to cry. Was she hungry?...
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How We Learn To Eat
Science A new book looks at the science of what we like taste… taste…
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You probably shouldn't blame touchscreens for your kid's terrible handwriting
Health In fact, they might even do some good. Parents the world over are concerned that touchscreen and tablet technology is negatively impacting children’s handwriting. But is this the case?
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Surprise! Kids' apps are full of manipulative, unregulated advertising
Technology And that’s just the start of a kindergartener’s gaming woes. A new study shows that 95 percent of children’s apps contain at least one type of advertising, a number that worries physicians...
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Should parents lie to kids about Santa Claus? We asked the experts.
Science Balancing holiday magic with the cold, hard truth. In the United States, 85 percent of 4-year-olds believe in Santa Claus. Is that OK?
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The WHO’s ‘zero screen time for babies’ rule is more complicated than it seems
Health It's not necessarily because screens are bad. Your baby is probably sitting too much, and the World Health Organization wants to change that.
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