Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research supports the view that the effects of the pandemic on preschoolers' development are not so dire. (Photo illustration: ...

In a small room at the Pico Union Library on a recent Friday morning, Marissa Gonzalez and her 3-year-old squished gooey, green blobs of colored shaving cream onto big swaths of paper. Gonzalez is ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found an association between ultra-processed foods in early childhood, and behavioral and emotional development. Specifically, the team found ...

A new study has found that children in Head Start who miss 10 percent or more of the school year have fewer gains in academics than their peers who attend preschool more regularly. Many researchers ...

Few parenting milestones generate as much whispered anxiety as this one: when should you stop wiping your child’s butt? It is a question that comes up constantly in pediatrician offices, preschool ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving forward on his promise to offer subsidized preschool to all low-income 4-year-olds and is proposing to consolidate most other subsidized child care programs in California ...

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From left are: Pam Kearns, center director, Wilkes-Barre Child Development Center; Heather Yore, preschool teacher, Wilkes-Barre Child Development Center; Marlene Knaub, board president of Child ...

In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers suggest that younger children may face fewer challenges than initially feared. Researchers in Canada used data from the Ontario Birth Study ...