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Parents are often eager to give their adolescent children advice about school problems, but they may find that youth are less than receptive to their words of wisdom. However, kids who don't seem to listen to their parents may still benefit from their input, a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows.
To boost a preschooler’s language skills, consider reminiscing. ‘Parent talk’ study compares reminiscing, book sharing and toy play as language learning settings.
The Good Behavior Game is an effective classroom management strategy for students with learning differences. How to play.
Efforts to curb bullying of kids with disabilities should not take a one-size-fits-all approach, researchers say.
In a set of sharing experiments, Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers were more likely to choose options that would be more generous to others, even over a more equal sharing choice. Their English-speaking peers in the Washington State University study more often chose the most competitive option, one that advantaged themselves over others. The most competitive among that group were English-speaking Latino children, a finding that the researchers believe may reflect their desire to transition to the more individualistic American culture. This study not only adds evidence that children from col...