When fathers struggle with mental health at the time their children are born, their offspring experience developmental challenges throughout life, according to a new meta-analysis published in JAMA ...

Physical activity — primarily in the form of active play — promotes young children’s physical, mental, emotional and social health. It can also influence how active people will be later in life. It’s ...

Their gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are fully developed by this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years. The same applies to fine motor skills, ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

Lead is an environmental neurotoxicant that causes neurocognitive deficits and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. It also disproportionately affects socially disadvantaged communities. The ...

Announcing the campaign, social security, women and child development minister Baljit Kaur said the first 1,000 days of a child’s life—from conception to the age of two—are critical for physical, ...