Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

Last week, I took my kids to the zoo for the first time in many years. It was, in fact, the first ever time for my four-year-old daughter. She was ebullient about this outing, repeating aloud her ...

Cat Larrison wasn’t feeling well when her five-year-old thought of a way to help. “He came up and licked my arm!” Larrison says. “It was as sweet as it was soggy.” Her son was imitating one of his ...