Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. There's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. That picture is the picture I think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.