If you’re a parent, you know that toddlers have a knack for soaking up everything around them—often to hilarious effect. A recent TikTok video by @savconsidine has gone viral, racking up over 5 ...

Some toddlers are little chatterboxes, and some are shy and barely speak at all. New research suggests that shy kids understand what is being said to them, but choose to clam up when it comes to ...

If you are a parent of a toddler, you are surely familiar with the feeling of hearing the same word over and over again in ...

Don't just talk to your toddler -- gesture, too. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures seem to boost a budding vocabulary. Scientists found those tots who could convey more meaning with ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Having a conversation with your toddler can benefit the child later in life. A new study in the journal Pediatrics finds adult conversation with an 18 to 24-month-old leads to better ...

Toddlers get a kick out of giving adults a hard time. True to form, these wobbly-legged knowledge-sponges learn virtually nothing from best-selling DVDs that their parents believe will boost ...

The toddler brain is a bustling place, with billions of cells zapping millions of signals to each other every day. To keep this flurry of activity straight, our brains are organized into two halves; ...

My wife and I spent the past several months attempting to help our son Ben develop a large vocabulary. And it's working. So far he can say "fire truck" and the word that describes the sound of firemen ...

WASHINGTON — Don’t just talk to your toddler -- gesture, too. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures seem to boost a budding vocabulary. Scientists found that those tots who could convey ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Putting children in front of educational DVDs does not help boost their language skills, according to a U.S. study that focused on one product, the Baby Wordsworth from the ...