Quite a bit of evidence suggests that children who help others end up achieving more than those who don’t. Boys who are rated as helpful by their kindergarten teacher earn more money 30 years later.

Schools, others focus on preparing tots for kindergarten Gwinnett finds most begin unprepared, but pre-K classes aren’t the only way to address the challenge By Arlinda Smith Broady ...

Long before kids are old enough to start collecting "likes" on social media, they do appear to care what others think about them.Not only that, they behave in "surprisingly sophisticated" ways to ...

As transitional kindergarten expands across the state, California’s child-care industry is left scrambling to fill empty spots they once depended on.

An estimated 5.4 million children under 18 provided care to parents, grandparents or siblings with chronic medical conditions or functional decline in 2019, up from about 1.3 to 1.4 million in ...

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