Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans ...

WENCHI, Ethiopia (AP) — The kids in this volcano-rim village wear filthy, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They don't go to school. Yet they all can ...

Troubled child care provider ABC Learning has gone into voluntary administration, with receivers saying the company's childcare centres will stay open. ABC Learning has appointed receiving firm ...

Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a drawing doesn't - a ...

Human beings are mimetic. Meaning, we mimic each other. A child sees her parent eating an apple and instinctively both understands and wants to do it themselves. Or we see someone older doing ...

New research shows COVID-19 erased decades of progress in math and reading. It's the first day of fourth grade for Yara Valerio. As her mother, Emma Mercado, packs her lunch in the kitchen, Yara is ...

As the parent of a toddler I try to walk the fine line between being a loving, nurturing father and slipping away into an abyss of insanity because I haven’t had a peaceful moment in years. Keeping me ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Dozens of children's books are in Maddy Carpenter's kindergarten classroom at Cochran Primary School in Williamsport. But one book stands out, written by Mrs. Carpenter and her ...

As South African families gear up for the back-to-school rush, Dunlop Tyres SA is calling on parents, guardians, and scholar transport drivers to prioritise tyre safety by following the simple ABC of ...