National Kids and Pets Day celebrates the powerful bond between children and their pets — a connection that can teach empathy ...

As their excitement reached fever pitch, I continued driving into the ground a joke I’d been making throughout our journey ...

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, ...

From playful crafts to Montessori-inspired sorting games, preschool mammal activities are blending fun with foundational science learning. Educators and parents are using hands-on projects, sensory ...

How do you introduce engineering practices and skills to young learners? Smithsonian educators suggest it starts with empathy. Emily Porter & Melissa J. B. Rogers The Smithsonian's National Zoo and ...

May 2 through 8 is Be Kind to Animals Week. American Humane created the week in 1915 as a way to celebrate the special bond between people and pets and introduce humane education to children. The week ...

Local families took advantage of summer-like conditions to come out April 3 to Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation, where they learned how animals parent their young, practiced using their ...

The free program brought together about a dozen participants, including 12-year-old Cheyenne Torrez, who said she jumped at ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — While many local children are off from school for Spring Break, the Gulf Coast Humane Society is keeping young minds active and compassionate with its annual camp, “Helping ...