New research highlights how simple toy choices profoundly impact child development. Playing with dolls, unlike screen time, significantly boosts social processing and emotional understanding by ...

The beauty entrepreneur backs Belle Dolls, a brand built on representation across skin tones, sizes and cultures, in a ...

How do children build resilience in an unpredictable world? Through story. Fantasy-based play helps girls develop identity, emotional flexibility, and inner strength.

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Handing your kid a tablet might keep them busy, but it won’t necessarily help them figure out what other people are thinking or feeling. New research suggests that playing with dolls builds that ...

Research by Cardiff University has found that playing with Barbie dolls can help reach key milestones in developing empathy and social understanding during childhood. Doll play was found to be ...

Order up a Raggedy Ann or a Barbie doll: Playing with dolls helped children develop a stronger tolerance for diverse perspectives. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into ...