14.When I was a kid, my family took a lot of road trips. We would always drive late at night. My parents used to put us kids to bed and then transfer us to the car. I thought this was odd until I was ...

Keystone Lodge & Spa: All your kids will want to know is that there’s a heated outdoor pool (winter swimming, anyone?), but ...

The Loving Library teamed up with Waymo to donate books and build shelves for the Goodwill Excel Center's childcare program.

David and Florian Pelicot and Caroline Darian — the children of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot — took the stand for the first time in the mass rape trial that has horrified France.

Kandice Cole longs for the life she knew before her 4-year-old son, Eric, found a loaded gun at a babysitter's house.

The Free Masons and The Shriners in Swanton are collecting a lot of toys for kids who may be worried that Santa won't reach ...

The current facility, called East Acres at Hampstead, has shared bedrooms and little space to separate kids who also may be in crisis. It’s hard to achieve a “home-like” feel with these limitations, ...

or take a "morning off" by giving my kids crafts and store-bought lunches while I read in bed for a few hours. I don't answer ...

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Below, the 15 best play and floor mats out there for both babies and toddlers, any of which, I should note, would look great not only in a nursery but in your living room, too. While these mats ...

In a new study, two- and three-year-olds were found to learn more effectively after witnessing impossible events, which seem to trigger an intense curiosity. Toddlers didn’t show a similar learning ...