One of the tricky things about researching child development is that it occurs within a cultural and social context.

Every child is developing within a context and however normal our own culture feels to us, there is no objective context-free norm that we can compare other children to. That is, to say, we should ...

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For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to base our thinking on a child’s development around what we understand as “normal”. Much of the time we do this without thinking ...

Many of the studies that claim to research child development either implicitly, or explicitly, claim that their findings are universal. For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to ...

For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often tempting to base our thinking on a child’s development around what we understand as “normal”. Much of the time we do this without thinking, describing a ...