The CDC recently revised its developmental milestone checklists for infants and young children for the first time in nearly 20 years. The revision included adjusting the milestone benchmarks to ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is ...

Advice for parents seem to change quite often. But developmental milestones have been the same for about two decades; until now. “The earlier kids began developmental services, the better their ...

That’s a question parents, pediatricians, educators, and caregivers ask over and over again as children grow and change. To help answer this important question, child development experts have created ...

A conspiracy theory being propagated by right-wing sources claims that the age-specific markers for childhood development — activities like rolling, walking, and a baby’s first words — have been ...