Here’s how early childhood educators use scaffolding to help children learn new skills—and how you can use it at home.

Throughout most of his career, Big Sean has been something of a motivational figure. In his lyrics, you’ll find lines that could double as encouraging mantras or words of advice. And the same can be ...

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I’ve been doing a lot of work on myself lately, which has led me to read and watch a fair share of self-help material. A lot of it is nonsense, but I did find some valuable advice that I’ve been able ...

Some years ago, Richard Louv made the case in his book, Last Child in the Woods, that kids were spending so little time in nature that they had “nature deficit disorder.” The consequences they ...

Over the past five years, my colleague Jeremy Stevenson and I have read more than 100 self-help books, studied over 20 therapies, and extracted and categorized nearly 500 techniques from those sources ...

Researchers have found that one key way to encourage intrinsic motivation to learn is by making classroom lessons relevant to students’ lives. This element is constant—whether we’re doing remote ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

The arts can be a source of joy in a child’s day, and also come in handy for memorizing times tables. By Perri Klass, M.D. In “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith’s 1943 autobiographical novel ...