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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
- Aug 25, 2026 In 2018, cockatoos in the suburbs of Sydney began flipping open household wheelie bins by wedging their beaks under the… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 23, 2026 Children who play with wooden blocks practise spatial reasoning, and researchers at the University of Delaware found… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 21, 2026 In 1961, a Soviet dog named Zvezdochka orbited Earth eighteen days before Yuri Gagarin flew, and photographs of her… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 20, 2026 At three years old, a child's brain uses glucose at roughly twice the rate of an adult brain, gram for gram, a… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 20, 2026 At six months, a baby babbling in a nursery in Tokyo produces the same range of consonants as a baby babbling in… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 19, 2026 Adults who kept every letter, birthday card, and handwritten note from the 1980s aren't hoarders, they're the last… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 19, 2026 The hardest part of the empty nest isn't the silence, it's meeting the version of yourself who has been waiting behind… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 18, 2026 A four-year-old asks roughly 300 questions a day, and many of those questions seem to cluster tightest just before nap… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 17, 2026 Toddlers offered four toys instead of sixteen play in episodes lasting roughly twice as long, a finding University of… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 16, 2026 At around age four, most children begin drawing a sun with a smiling face and rays shooting from its edges regardless… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 14, 2026 In 1901, a schoolteacher in Rome named Maria Montessori noticed that children in her observation classroom would repeat… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 14, 2026 Parents who constantly tell a child “you’re so smart” may be building a surprisingly fragile kind of confidence By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 9, 2026 Not making a scene really is worth it, but mostly for a reason nobody mentions By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 9, 2026 Growing up in a very strict household really can leave lasting marks, but decades of research point to a surprising… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 8, 2026 In 1929, Jean Piaget noticed his own children treating the moon as if it were following them on evening walks, and the… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Aug 7, 2026 A child who narrates their every move is not a budding narcissist but someone whose perspective-taking is still coming… By The Artful Age Editorial Team