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Measuring nurture: Study shows how 'good mothering' hardwires infant brain By carefully watching nearly a hundred hours of video showing mother rats protecting, warming, and feeding their young pups, and then matching up what they saw to real-time electrical readings from the pups' brains, researchers at NYU Langone... read more	Sensitive responsiveness and the bigger picture Is it enough that our children survive? Is it enough that our children grow up into adults who can be functioning members of society–who can choose to marry and have children, who can get and keep a job and pay their bills?
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including—	Spanking the gray matter out of our kids How to discipline the next generation is a hotly debated topic.
Kids with strong bonds to parents make better friends, can adapt in relationships What social skills does a three-year-old bring to interactions with a new peer partner?	Roughhousing lessons from Dad Fathers who spend time with their kids help instill self-control and social skills, numerous studies show, but exactly how fathers do that is a mystery.
World Breastfeeding Week 2014: The History of Formula Use I am very much a breastfeeding advocate, but I hesitate to vilify formula. I myself have bottle-fed two of my three babies with some formula.	How to raise happy kids, according to science When you ask parents what they want for their kids, what's usually the most common reply? They want their children to be happy. So looking at the science, what really works when it comes to raising happy kids?
Prenatal maternal stress predicts asthma and autism traits in 6 1/2-year-old children A new study finds a link between prenatal maternal stress and the development of symptoms of asthma and autism in children.	What a little love means to a little one For too many, the damage begins early in life. Four out of 10 infants born in the United States do not form a strong bond with either parent, and they will pay for that the rest of their lives.

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