Physical Development in Preschoolers

When Are You More Likely to Offer Sugary Drinks and Snacks to Your Child?

After identifying the critical situations where parents are more likely to offer sweets to their child...

Social & Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Childhood

Research has found that mothers who perceive stronger social support from their partners during...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Evaluating the Association Between Mother-Child Attachment And Emotion Understanding In Children

Research has found that mother-child attachment security...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Behavior Problems in Children: An Intergenerational Transmission

Research has found that mothers’ adverse childhood experiences...

Social Development in Preschoolers

Understanding the Effects of Quarantine on Your Children

The school year has started a couple of months ago, and many schools are opting to resume to in-person classes. So, children are required to go back to their...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Bed-Wetting Is A Sign of Emotional Problems: Myth or Fact?

Our five fingers are not the same, and so are our children. When it comes to peeing, toilet training practices vary from...

Social Development in Preschoolers

The Importance of Peer Relationships in Early Childhood

The ‘peer relationships’ topic has been of peculiar interest nowadays since the vast majority of children are exposed to peers before preschool through day-care...

Evaluating Memory in Children with Blindness

Research has found that blind children have better short-term memory than sighted children. According to the American Psychological Association (2020), memory can be defined...

Social Development in Preschoolers

Using Humor to Cope with A Disability

When faced with the adversities of everyday life, people tend to cope in many different ways. Using humor as a coping mechanism can be one way of...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Insecure Attachment and Anxiety

Attachment theory suggests that people are naturally and biologically drawn to form relationships with others (Bowlby, 1982). In the case of children, that relationship originally consists of the parent-child...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Child Maltreatment: An Intergenerational Occurrence

How often have you heard of perpetrators who were abused in their childhood? What about children who were maltreated and ended up...

Emotional Development in Preschoolers

Is there such a thing as a good divorce?

Research has found that the notion of good divorce exists indeed and can prevent children from experiencing negative psychological consequences...

Social Development in Preschoolers

Parent-Child Attachment and Social Competence in Preschoolers

Research has found that early father-child and mother-child attachment relationships uniquely contribute to preschoolers’ social competence...