Myth 35: There are different “learning styles”.

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. However, a new report finds no evidence for the learning styles hypothesis.

Myth 32: There’s Something Wrong With A Bedwetter

What about the child who, despite diligent night-training, continues to sleep right through the urge to use the bathroom. Is it his fault? Is it ours?

Myth 31: All Anesthetics During Birth Harm Babies’ Brains

No less a revered medical institution than the Mayo Clinic, the saviors of severely medically challenged children nationwide, have studied and declared that anesthetics used during cesarean births do not cause children to have brain problems.

Myth 23: Breastfeeding prevents obesity

A longer period of breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI (a measure for weight) at one year of age. This relationship disappeared by the age of 7 years. Similarly, there was no significant difference in BMI at the age of 60 years associated with duration of breastfeeding.

Myth 18: Light drinking in pregnancy is bad for children.

Children born to mothers who drink lightly during pregnancy – as defined as 1–2 units per week or per occasion – are not at increased risk of behavioral difficulties or cognitive deficits compared with children of abstinent mothers, according to a new study led by researchers at University College London (UCL)

Myth 6: A small child who hits is being mean.

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who pioneered much modern thought in the area of childhood development, says that children only begin to grasp the concept of empathy at 10 years and older. Only at that age do they begin to really see other points of view and appreciate different worlds from their own. [...]