Myranda Hawthorne receives funding from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Sophie M Phillips receives funding from Children's Health Research Institute and Mitacs. Trish Tucker receives funding from ...

If you’re the parent of a young child, you probably already know how important physical activity is for their health. In recent decades, pediatricians and public health officials have raised concerns ...

Nathan Hall receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Melanie Gregg receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Brock University provides funding ...

In a recent study published in EClinicalMedicine, researchers investigate the association between physical activity levels in young children and their development, socio-behavioral characteristics, ...

Parents seeking help in encouraging toddlers to be physically active may soon need to look no further than an inexpensive robotic buddy for their kids, a new study suggests. Parents seeking help in ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Documentation and Health Promotion, Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 EMGO Institute and Department of Public & Occupational Health, VU ...

Toddlers learn best through play, not formal lessons. Play fuels brain development, boosting memory and problem-solving. It ...

A new study found that 24-month-old children who spent less than 60 minutes looking at screens each day and those who engaged in at least 60 minutes of daily physical activity had better executive ...