Fostering basic social skills for kids is now more important than ever as school gradually returns to in-person. It’s been about three weeks since your children returned to school buildings. How is ...

In the new PBS KIDS series “Tiny Time Travel,” best friends Tyler and Tony use a time machine to help them solve problems. As they go back and forth in time, they help friends and neighbors fix ...

As a speech-language pathologist, I often hear parents wondering how to get kids off their ever-present screens. The challenge, many parents say, is that “simple” activities and old-fashioned games ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After coaching, parents were more likely to use strategies to help their child with communication. Caregiver ...

I recently saw a TikTok featuring a young woman who didn’t know how to use a toaster oven, claiming something to the effect of, “My parents just always made my toast and I didn’t know there were ...

Kids today live very different lives than youngsters did in previous generations. With technology permeating every part of life, there are so many things that they do differently, or don’t have to do ...

A 2nd-grade teacher with 14 years of experience under her belt turned to Reddit to describe how, in recent years, she's noticed a sharp decline in independence among her students. In fact, she said ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Teachers across the country are reporting that their young students have fallen dramatically behind on basic life skills, such as tying their shoes, following school shutdowns during the pandemic.