The timing of the release of the new book How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You’re Grown Up really couldn’t be better. I’m sure author Catherine Newman ...

Pandemic learning loss has impacted students’ basic developmental skills, ranging from sharing to using scissors, raising the stakes for using the summer months to help make up the gap. In this week’s ...

Watch this video for tips on helping little kids learn important financial basics. If your kid can count to ten, they are ready to start learning about money.July 3, 2020 ...

If you find yourself struggling to keep your kids busy if their schools or extracurriculars are shut down due to the pandemic, writer and mother of two Erinne Magee recommends creating an at-home ...

Oona and Paul Hanson had joked for years that their kids could use "Common Sense Camp" to learn some of life's more basic but necessary skills. So when sleep-away and day camps were canceled in 2020, ...

Think back and picture it: It's 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in 2012. You're in the third grade and had an awesome day. You crushed your times tables worksheet in under two minutes. You're on your way home, ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big kids at ...

Ms. Sproul’s suggestion that we provide students with the opportunity to choose what they study is not new. In the fifties, I was studying to be a teacher and was presented with that philosophy.

Teachers are opening up about how more and more children are lacking in life skills – a decline they’ve noticed happening over the years. In a Reddit post titled “many kids cannot do basic things ...