I have encountered many adolescents with a poor grasp of morality in my practice as a pediatrician and counselor for children. This post considers how children learn morality and the challenges we ...
Almost daily we read or hear about the rising tide of teen-age violence, alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, weapons in schools and other anti-social behavior. Concerned civic and religious leaders worry ...
Children's TV shows are typically designed to improve their viewers' cognitive, social and moral development. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Saldukas/Released via Flickr To adult viewers, ...
The debate over children and social media is often framed as a question of parental control or technological inevitability.
A study of children's conversations with their caretakers sheds light on the timeline of the emergence of moral foundation words in the first six years of life in English-speaking children. Moral ...
Growing up, my mortal enemy as a child were the seemingly insurmountable stairs that always seemed to stand between me and places I wanted to get to. Some of my earliest memories remain of how I was ...
Ever since Homo sapiens left the Great Rift Valley a few hundred thousand years ago, we’ve been worrying that the kids aren’t all right. The children are our future, we’re told, but they’re also ...