The top honors in this year's children's book awards from the American Library Association lauded Dave Egger's The Eyes and the Impossible and Vashti Harrison's picture book Big.
Despite the lack of medical evidence for doing so, fertility clinics bar women over a certain BMI from their services. One writer makes the case such limits are unfair and unscientific.
Are we in a surge? How would we know? Is winter now "COVID season?" And what do you do if your whole family got the coronavirus over the holidays? We tackle readers' coronavirus questions.
Reading the same books, playing the same games, asking the same questions. Kids' fascination with repetition can be exhausting for parents, but researchers say it's key to brain development.
Soda taxes are meant to discourage people from drinking too much sugar, which is linked to a host of bad health outcomes. Cities that imposed the taxes saw a 33% decrease in the sale of sugary drinks.
This year's federal aid form is new and improved. But it came three months later than normal, and in its first week, online access has been unpredictable.
A bulky winter coat underneath a car seat can pose dangers for children. Ahead of winter storms on the East Coast, here are some tips for optimal car safety.
The new benefits take a cue from a pandemic success story — when an expanded U.S. child tax credit briefly cut child poverty in half. Some states include immigrants and index credits to inflation.
Here are our editors' picks for stories from 2023 that we wish more people would see: from an elephant safari for teens to mating glaciers in Pakistan to a debate about Barbie's skin tone in India.
After my parents died, it felt like I had been robbed. I sat down with my brother and sister to talk about how losing our mom and dad made us think about religion and our own spirituality.
For nearly 40 years, residents of a neighborhood in a Milwaukee suburb have gone wild with their Christmas decorations. And it's a long-standing tradition to take a drive through "Candy Cane Lane."
While a recent survey says women around the world cook at home about twice as often as men do, a good number of our readers said: "Not in my house!" We've got a feast of stories and opinions.
GOP candidates talk about schools a lot on the campaign trail. But that doesn't mean they are talking a lot about education, instead focusing on culture war issues on the battleground of K-12 schools.
