Children Corner

In 2014, Suchitra Sharma asked why parents perform their children's achievements on Facebook. The humblebrag is older now — and bigger. From the TI archives.

From the TI archives: a parent's 2014 shortlist of magazines, toys, science kits, and free learning sites to keep kids aged 5–12 curious — most of them

How to raise self-motivated learners: praise effort over outcomes, set written goals, define steps — and let kids learn that failure is part of the process.

NYC subway workers bent the rules and delayed a train to retrieve a little girl's dropped stuffed animal — a small kindness that went viral.

Can street smarts be taught? A look at whether parents can pass on the ability to read situations, spot danger, and navigate unfamiliar environments.

A Thanksgiving reflection on a child's gratitude list by Shlok Sharma — family, friends, school, and the specific things that make the days good.

"Sharma ji ka beta scored 98 percent." Comparing children to others feels like motivation — psychology says it mostly produces anxiety. What to do instead.

A Danish study of 161,696 young men linked hospital-treated childhood infections with lower IQ — an association, not proof of cause, from later research.

Little Village Academy in Chicago banned packed lunches — students must eat the cafeteria food. A 2011 flashpoint in the debate over who controls what kids eat.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams argued in 2011 that schools should teach business skills instead of calculus and art history.

Sesame Street’s Urdu adaptation, Sim Sim Hamara, brought Elmo to Pakistani television — a case for making children’s TV genuinely local, not dubbed.

At twelve, summer camp stops being canoes and campfire songs and becomes a social inflection point. What actually makes camp work at that age — choice, not