A study by a research group at the Max Planck Institute examined how children employ creativity when faced with novel tasks. The researchers found that children’s broad attention focus allows them to ...

New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

A UW-led team held six sessions with a group of 12 Seattle-area kids ages seven to 13 to explore how the kids’ creative processes interacted with AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E. Here, one of the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- "Finding Inspiration: Kids in the Arts," a WABC-TV special, looks at how the arts help develop a child's mind, sense of self, and, ultimately, their place in the world. Eyewitness ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Children’s brains are like sponges absorbing new information. Children also possess more open and flexible minds compared to adults, allowing for divergent thinking and ...

When Deirdre Yeater, Ph.D., a psychologist at Sacred Heart University who studies cognitive development in marine mammals, set out to study creativity, she found she had a colleague with parallel ...

In our modern, digital world, it’s more important than ever to share the wonders of classical music with children. “The nuance and musicality of real people playing real instruments will always be ...

Does your neurodivergent kid's mind tend to wander? That might actually be a good thing. A new study discovered that so-called deliberate mind wandering can give people with ADHD the freedom to ...

Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests. Train elementary school students how to be ...

As parents, our advice, discipline, and counsel profoundly affect how our children develop social, personal, and academic skills. Child psychologists agree that emotionally-charged comments, over time ...

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for couples—it’s a wonderful opportunity to celebrate love as a family! This year, get your little ones involved in the festivities with creative, fun activities that ...