Studying the psychology of children and the way it changes as they develop is a difficult business. One idea is that drawing plays a crucial role in children’s cognitive development, so drawings ought ...

There are many times in a child’s life when they might be unwilling or unable to express to us adults what they’re feeling inside — and understandably so. Still, it can be frustrating for parents to ...

And for the grownups—that’s all of us—who never outgrow their need for his presence around the clock. My husband got into a bicycle accident on his ride home from work two years ago. Wet grass caused ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...