Parenting & Education

Excellence is grown, not born, a New York Times best-selling author told members of the Evanston school community on Friday. 

I recently stopped to congratulate a young mother pushing her toddler in a stroller. The woman had been talking to her barely v...

If you sit that close to the TV, you're going to go blind.

If you don't clean your ears, potatoes will grow in them.

If you...

A new study links bullying behavior by adolescents to the perception they are not treated fairly by their parents.

How are bul...

My daugther's favourite nursery rhyme was Humpty Dumpty. As a baby, she'd grin and gurgle to keep me singing; later she'd pull m...

Smacking children stunts their intelligence, research suggests.

Youngsters kept in line through slaps and spanks have IQs...