Answer help for Home Sweet Home, featuring one of today's clues: Pretense, from USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle creators.

PRESENT PRETENSE: n./phrase, pron. prez-uh nt pree-tens: The act of stretching the facts, feigning excitement, or practicing selective truth-telling to avoid awkwardness frequently associated with the ...

Babies recognize pretense and around half of children can pretend themselves by 12 months, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bristol, shows for the first time how children's ...

This post was co-written by Dr. Thalia R. Goldstein (posted on her blog here), and Brittany Thompson. The post describes an academic paper recently published in Child Development. One possible ...

Decades after I began writing about language, there are still words I avoid out of fear I’ll use them wrong. And worse: Some of these are terms I’ve learned, written about, then promptly forgotten.

This post was co-written by Dr. Thalia R. Goldstein (posted on her blog here), and Brittany Thompson. The post describes an academic paper recently published in Child Development. One possible ...