Children need safe, loving and structured childhoods, but they also need autonomy, competence and agency to flourish and grow. After combing through piles of research on traits most highly correlated […]

Show of hands; who plays everything they watch at home — be it indie movies, prestige TV shows, or big blockbusters — with subtitles? As streaming has grown to dominate

Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of surrogate life. You can learn from them so seamlessly that you might believe you knew something—about ancient Greece, say—before having gleaned it