Expert views
As our children enter into their eighth year, our panel of experts consider some of the challenges facing them and their parents - and all parents and children.
What you've taught us
Since 2004, we've asked for you to join in our surveys connected to the Child of Our Time series. Here, we share some survey findings.
Difference and sameness
As there are more differences within, rather than between, human groups, what does that mean for children growing up with ideas of race?
Imaginative approaches
Encouraging imaginative responses to the world is fine - but go too far, and you could end up killing creativity.
What was I about to do?
Toddlers get distracted; adults forget what they set out to do. It's the development of Executive function that takes us from plans to action.
Footnotes
Producing Child of Our Time involves drawing on a large range of academic surveys and studies. Here are some key references.
The Children's Stories
In 2006, The Children's Stories revealed what we'd learned so far from watching the children.
