While each experience of adolescence is individually unique, I believe that many changes and challenges are much the same for them all. Usually beginning around ages 9 to 13 years, this eight- to ...

Tanner stages are a tool used by healthcare providers to evaluate development in puberty. They detail five specific stages of physical change in puberty, including genital, breast, and pubic hair ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. To stay connected with their daughter or son as adolescence increasingly pulls them apart (which it is meant to do), parents must keep their expectations ahead of the ...

A parenting education and support program offered by the Center for Child and Family Studies, is helping families strengthen ...

Maintaining thyroid levels during pregnancy is crucial for both maternal health and foetal development. Thyroid hormones ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves. Once ...