Alicia McKenzie, a mother of five from McLean, Va., has written a children’s book, “These ABCs Belong to Me!,” to help kids reclaim negative labels and turn them into positive traits. Drawing from her ...

There's a report from our CBS affiliate in Arizona. It says that an 11 year-old-girl dodge a possible kidnapping by simply asking a would-be kidnapper for the "code word." As parents you want to keep ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

This holiday season, we’re sharing more than gifts—we’re sharing kindness, courage, and hope for kids facing childhood cancer ...

To succeed in school and beyond, children need to build a robust vocabulary. Kids learn a lot from the adults in their lives and there are many ways you can help your child learn new words. We reached ...

Betsy Gaynor was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life, and considered getting into education. Then a mentor gave her some advice that stuck. “She told me: ‘Don’t just go into ...

Parents have so much that they need to be responsible for these days. Where children often waited until kindergarten or first grade to learn their numbers, letters and colors, today’s children often ...

A recent study has found that younger babies learn words for new objects based on how interested they are in the object. Older babies attach more importance to whether the speaker is interested in the ...

The stronger a child’s vocabulary, the more successful she tends to be in school, and new research shows that the word-building can begin before kids start talking. Child development experts have long ...