As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has ...

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Baby talk” gets a bad rap, but it’s actually one of the most powerful tools for helping children learn language.

Mothers tend to speak less to infants when they're on their smartphones, a new study finds. Moms talked 16% less to their babies when they were fiddling with their phone, researchers found. Shorter 1- ...

Parents have been singing lullabies to their children for thousands of years, but emerging research suggests that music does far more than simply calm a restless infant. Dutch scientists have ...

From the very first coos to full sentences, language development is a journey that starts earlier than most parents realize. Babies communicate through sounds, gestures, and shared moments long before ...

Having a television in earshot is enough to significantly reduce an infant's exposure to the spoken words of parents and other adults, and to reduce an infant's own vocalizations and verbal exchanges, ...

Nearly two million children in the UK are affected by early language delays. New research will examine whether noise in nurseries is a hidden factor. An estimated 1.9 million children across the UK ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...