Therapists share six words that kids need to hear more often, along with tips on how and when to use them. Plus, one word ...

The words you choose matter a lot in parenting. Your kids are impressionable, and language (words) embodies thought, which is why choosing the right words of encouragement matters. As a parent, you ...

Words in the English language are structured to help children learn, according to research. Words like "woof" accurately represent the sound of a dog while sounds with similar meanings may have a ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

Johnny in Topeka can’t read, but Janne in Helsinki is effortlessly finishing his storybooks. Such a disparity may be expected by now, but the reason might come as a surprise: It probably has much less ...

The former actor and BBC producer Collette Hiller has won the CLiPPA – the poetry award run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) – for Colossal Words for Kids: 75 Tremendous Words ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

But one of the kids was a little rowdier than the others and apparently kept banging into them, taking their toys, and cutting them in line. The rowdy kid’s mom kept marching him over to his various ...