Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

Numbers and Math It may not seem like a lesson, but you are teaching every time you count things while you and your child are out in the world. Count the apples as you put them in the bag or count the ...

My child has always liked water. Even as a baby, she liked to kick in the bath and was fascinated by waterfalls. So when we just assumed that she would love the community pool. But when we took her to ...

Kids in the 1970s learned several life skills that modern parenting has pretty much wiped out of children today.

Observing the fragility of relating to each other in these heavily freighted times has caused me to ask myself how we teach our children to be a friend. So now I’m asking you as well. Sometimes such ...

Some parents are signing their children up for chess lessons to get a break, and to teach them how to express themselves. By Lam Thuy Vo Ellis Clifton draws a grid with yellow chalk, counting each row ...

Between curriculum changes and technological advances, schools today no longer teach kids these 11 old-fashioned lessons.