Acknowledging that mothers wield great power over their children makes many people uncomfortable. This is because the idea of Mom as a ruler—potentially an attentive and caring monarch, an absentee ...

When I was in college, I worked at a lumberyard. One day, the boss asked me to climb to the second level of a storage barn at the back of the property and do an inventory on the 4’ by 8’ sheets of ...

Researchers have long studied infants' perceptions of safe and risky ground by observing their willingness to cross a visual cliff, a large drop-off covered with a solid glass surface. Now a new study ...