Middle childhood often gets forgotten, but these crucial years play a pivotal role in our children's resiliency.

Social Science and Medicine 50(4): 517–29 ... “Economic Disparities in Middle Childhood Development: Does Income Matter?” Developmental Psychology 42(6): 1154–67. Wadsworth, Martha E., Gary W. Evans, ...

Hey there, ever wonder if your birth order shaped who you are? If you're a middle child, you might have heard all sorts of ...

Middle Childhood — the years between 6 and 12 — is when the foundation for mental health, social confidence, and emotional resilience is quietly being laid and it can be forgotten no longer.

The research was conducted at Boston College and appears in the journal Child Development ... both early and middle childhood were associated with decreases in children's social skills and ...

The middle child gets quite the rep. Children who aren't the first or last born in their families are often pegged as attention-seeking, overlooked and jealous. Other times, they're considered ...