Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans ...

Human beings are mimetic. Meaning, we mimic each other. A child sees her parent eating an apple and instinctively both understands and wants to do it themselves. Or we see someone older doing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It's important for kids to take time to learn their ABCs, and it's just as important for them to know they are loved and valued. That's the goal of the ABC Affirmations. Janaya ...