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

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

A new longitudinal study found that when siblings in middle childhood experienced ... is published in Child Development, a journal of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Children's intake of ultra-processed foods spikes significantly between toddlerhood and middle childhood, raising concerns over long-term health impacts like higher sodium and sugar consumption ...