An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
K.C. Compton worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 20 years before moving to the Kansas City area as an editor for Mother Earth News. She has been in Seattle since 2016, enjoying life as a freelance and contract writer and editor.
For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
In reviewing the extensive body of research on children’s language development, you might find yourself looking around for some fathers....
Anyone who has spent time around a toddler knows their signature cries of “No!” and “Mi-i-ine!”—often some of the first...
Babies and small children might not immediately come to mind when we think about people dealing with chronic stress. But...
If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...
Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here
Recent Study Explores Factors that Influence Development of Walking Skill
Whoever decided to use baby steps as a metaphor for timid, tenuous beginnings had it all wrong. Baby steps are...
When babies are learning to walk, they fall on average 17 times an hour. Given that frequency of falls, you...
In 2016, Alma Gonzalez, a passionate Latino community leader and volunteer, along with the community organization Eastside Pathways, identified the...
Although trying to keep up with a toddler can feel like opening day at the goat rodeo, the movement between...
As the U.S. finally appears to be coming to grips with how essential childcare is to future economic growth—and how...
