How many times in a week do you come across a Facebook update like this “ I am so proud of my son/daughter, he got ….” , The list to the dots is endless. It could be about the 4 year old painting a tree or being the socc...

Some resources for the young minds ( : Various choices of digital and print magazine selection can be found here. Prices range from $17 to $50 for a monthly subscription. Magazines are fun, exploratory for the kids in th...

Building motivated children Early on, right from the prekindergarten years or maybe even before that, if we started training our little ones to be motivated learners, the kids would grow up to be self-assured adults and...

In the category of small human kindnesses that cut through the noise of a difficult news cycle, the story of New York City subway workers who stopped a train to retrieve a little girl's dropped stuffed animal landed with...

Street smarts — the cluster of skills that allows a person to read situations accurately, recognize danger before it materializes, communicate with a wide range of people, and navigate unfamiliar or difficult environment...

Gratitude, when expressed by a child, carries a clarity that adults rarely achieve. Children haven't yet learned to be self-conscious about sincerity, and their lists of what they're thankful for tend to have an honesty...

Every Indian parent has either said it or heard it: "Sharma ji ka beta scored 98 percent." The comparison to other children — neighbors' kids, cousins, classmates — is so embedded in the social fabric of Indian parenting...

The kingpins of the city's underworld have either fled, been killed in encounters or called it aday. But GenX is stepping out of their parents' feared shadows in search of a new identity in Mumbai as bankers, doctors, en...

The Brain Through Life: Understanding Cognitive Aging The human brain is remarkable—capable of learning, memory, adaptation, and growth throughout life. Yet all brains change with age. Understanding these changes helps u...

Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. "Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish...

Dilbert creator Scott Adams's argument that American high school curricula should prioritize practical business skills over traditional academic subjects — including art history and calculus — landed in a familiar debate...

Sesame Workshop's adaptation of Sesame Street for Urdu-speaking audiences — Sim Sim Hamara, produced for Pakistani television — represented one of the more thoughtful applications of the franchise's core insight: that ed...

Summer camp occupies a particular place in the American childhood mythology — a place of canoes and campfire songs and best friends made in six weeks who somehow feel permanent. The twelve-year-old's perspective on this...