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A child playing on an outdoor jungle gym.

Updated on Feb. 5, 2025

3 minute read

How Common and Serious Are Playground Accidents?

Emily Oster, PhD

Figurines of wooden families with different numbers of family members are arranged on a beige background

Updated on Feb. 5, 2025

3 minute read

Is It Better for My Child to Have a Sibling or More Resources?

Emily Oster, PhD

Child's legs, in protective soccer gear, about to kick a soccer ball on artificial turf.

Updated on Feb. 4, 2025

2 minute read

Are the Chemicals in Artificial Turf Dangerous?

Emily Oster, PhD

Teen boys at school

Updated on Feb. 3, 2025

9 minute read

Why Adolescent Boys Are Struggling

Christopher Pepper

A teacher teaching kids in the classroom

Updated on Jan. 31, 2025

2 minute read

What’s the Data Behind Gifted and Talented Programs?

Emily Oster, PhD

A parent reads a phone on the toilet.

Updated on Jan. 30, 2025

9 minute read

Everything You Need to Know About Poop

Emily Oster, PhD

A person holding a chicken in a lab wearing gloves

Updated on Jan. 29, 2025

8 minute read

What You Need to Know About Bird Flu

Emily Oster, PhD

A mother cups her child's face during a hard conversation.

Updated on Jan. 28, 2025

14 minute read

Talking About Death with Small Children

Miranda Featherstone

A doctor vaccinating a baby on parent's lap

Updated on Jan. 24, 2025

2 minute read

My Child’s Friend Isn’t Vaccinated. What Are the Risks?

Emily Oster, PhD

A pill box, three pills , 5 star and one moon stickers arranged on a blue background

Updated on Jan. 23, 2025

7 minute read

Should I Give My Child Melatonin to Help Them Sleep?

Emily Oster, PhD

Child (a young girl) lays on a massage bed while female chiropractor lifts her leg

Updated on Jan. 21, 2025

2 minute read

Should My Kid See a Chiropractor?

Emily Oster, PhD

A bowl of cereal in a yellow background

Updated on Jan. 21, 2025

2 minute read

Should I Worry About BHT in My Kid's Cereal?

Emily Oster, PhD

A parent combs a child's long hair with a lice comb, and examines the comb in the light.

Updated on Jan. 20, 2025

8 minute read

Pinworms, Lice, and Itching

Emily Oster, PhD

A parent removing her kid's clothes while he is combing and scratching his head

Updated on Jan. 17, 2025

3 minute read

What Should You Do About Lice?

Emily Oster, PhD

Three kids doing work in a school

Updated on Jan. 15, 2025

6 minute read

Should Your Child Go to a Charter School?

Emily Oster, PhD

A children's slide and fort are seen, abandoned, on a smokey day.

Updated on Jan. 13, 2025

3 minute read

Can I Take My Kids Outside When There's Wildfire Smoke?

Christopher Worsham, MD