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Most parents tell lies to their children as a tactic to change their behaviour, suggests a study of families in the United States and China.

The first major study of tiger moms is out. The kids have worse grades, and they are more depressed and more alienated from their parents.

For the past four decades, the "marshmallow test" has served as a classic experimental measure of children's self-control: will a preschooler eat one of the fluffy white confections now or hold out for two later? The original research began at Stanford University in the late 1960s. Walter Mischel and other researchers famously showed that individual differences in the ability to delay gratification on this simple task correlated strongly with success in later life. Longer wait times as a child were linked years later to higher SAT scores, less substance abuse, and parental reports of better social skills.

The case against labeling and medicating children, and effective alternatives for treating them