Child Development

Selected sites for popular topics

Below we list one highly recommended site for several of our most popular topics. See the list on the left for a complete listing of topics. Click on a topic for a list of several sites.


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The Safe and Responsive Schools Project aims at school safety and violence prevention through comprehensive planning, parent and community involvement, and more. Anger management techniques for kids are provided, along with a variety of publications, a web forum, and other resources.

The SUNY Stony Brook Attachment Lab and the New York Attachment Consortium are a group of developmental and clinical psychologists and psychiatrists working to advance attachment theory and research. This site compiles their research on such topics as attachment theory and child development, attachment assessment, parent-child interaction, and mechanisms of stability and change.

NDSU Extension Service offers information on attachment in young children in their "Bright Beginnings" series, as well as a wealth of other information related to family, child development, and parenting. Publications are concise and reader-friendly.

Provides current research and articles on attachment theory and child development including reactive attachment disorder and the symptoms of attachment disorder. Also covers other child-related topics such as thumb sucking, school issues, social development, mental health and medications

Features an interactive timeline of the stages of child development. Each stage of the timeline provides specific information on typical child development for the associated age.

HealthLink covers toilet training and its possible effects on children. Articles discuss studies on toilet training and problems such as constipation and urinary incontinence. Includes information on the causes of these problems with toilet training as a possible cause.

Research-based articles for parents and entire families about building self-esteem in children and developing self-esteem in teens. Includes information about healthy and unhealthy self-esteem. Advice for parents on activies to build self-esteem in children, as well as self-esteem activities for teens. Many articles available in Spanish.