
Explore o impacto das cidades na vida das crianças e a importância vital de experiências em espaços públicos e na natureza, mesmo em ambientes urbanos.

Explore spiritual wisdom on patience, forgiveness, and inner peace. Gain insights into balancing mind and intellect, and learn practical tips for achieving harmony within yourself.

Early-career researchers discuss how their involvement in SRCD Monograph projects has shaped their perspectives and future plans, focusing on prosociality in refugee children and educational support impacts.

Adventurer Anit Sah shares his journey from childhood to becoming the youngest Everest summiteer, emphasizing how crucial decisions and embracing challenges can shape one's life and foster personal growth.

Evolutionary biologist explores testosterone's impact on behavior, focusing on play differences between boys and girls. Examines interplay of hormones and culture in shaping human conduct.

Discover how mindfulness and self-awareness can unlock your true potential, enhance mental health, and guide you towards the right career path. Learn strategies for overcoming stress and finding life's purpose.

Explore innovative solutions using interaction technology to enhance music teacher training and boost confidence in primary school music education.

Explore strategies for raising empathetic, resilient children while balancing work and family life with insights from three changemakers on tackling tough conversations.

Explore how society can support youth development, focusing on well-being, agency, and purpose to foster confident, resilient adults in today's challenging world.

Explore innovative approaches to maintaining family bonds during incarceration, examining their lasting impact on individuals and communities beyond prison walls.

Experts discuss recent pre-K research findings, examining short and long-term effects, policy implications, and strategies to sustain early benefits. Consensus statements and challenges in scaling programs are explored.

Boston's successful collective impact efforts advancing urban youth through education and career pathways, featuring dropout prevention, increased college attendance, and opportunities for disconnected youth. Insights from city leaders and educators.

Explore the psychological foundations of play through a groundbreaking framework that examines play as a mental state, connecting games, fiction, and human behavior across different life stages and cultural contexts.

Discover how adverse childhood experiences impact long-term physical and mental health through groundbreaking ACES research, revealing correlations with adult health outcomes and offering insights into trauma's lasting effects.

Lenore Skenazy discusses how reducing childhood anxiety involves letting kids do more things independently, challenging overprotective parenting in today's safety-obsessed world and offering practical steps for fostering childhood independence through the Let Grow organization.

Hannah Boquet shares how playing video games with her kids transformed screen time into meaningful connection, using esports to build trust, communication, and life skills while strengthening family bonds. Recorded at TEDxSioux Falls in April 2025.

Philosopher and psychologist Claudia Passos Ferreira presents groundbreaking neuroscience research suggesting that newborn babies — and possibly even late-term fetuses — may consciously experience their world, transforming our understanding of the very beginning of life.

Toy historian Chris Byrne explores how childhood toys like Matchbox cars, Barbie, Rubik's Cube, and Squishmallows reflect cultural values and influence adult development, revealing insights about personality and identity through playthings.

War reporter Anjan Sundaram highlights how small Indigenous communities, representing just 5% of the world's population, defend 80% of Earth's remaining biodiversity. He focuses on Mexico's ecological frontlines where these communities battle corporations and cartels to protect natural ecosystems.

Why do the world’s most dangerous actors invest in children – while democracies don’t? In this urgent and eye-opening talk, Sofie Lilli Stoffel explores the overlooked link between childhood, resilience, and national security. Drawing on neuroscience, research, and global case studies she shows how

In this bold and research-driven TEDx talk, venture capital researcher Viola Jardon exposes one of the most consequential gender gaps hiding in plain sight, who controls the money that builds our future. Despite women making up half the world's population, fewer than 16% of venture capital general p