Remember when a children's show featured nudity, a propellor penis, AND casual incest?

At just four years old, Autumn California Bailey is already a skateboarding success with more than 120,000 Instagram followers. Autumn, from Brighton, has been inspired by the Olympic performance of Sky Brown and has dreams of competing in future games.

Parents across the US say their children are acquiring British accents, thanks to Peppa Pig. Linguistic experts have cast doubt on such claims, but some parents insist the “Peppa effect” has their American children saying “mummy” instead of “mommy”, using phrases such as “Give it a go”, and pronouncing tomato “to-mah-to”, not “to-may-to”.

The largest increases occurred in Slavic, Baltic, English-speaking and Latin American countries.

Although we often think of young children as rather selfish, research has shown that babies and toddlers have a surprisingly strong sense of what is fair. At one year old, kids already expect resources to be divided fairly and for people to be helpful towards others. By two, they themselves tend to distribute resources equally, and would rather play with a fair adult than an unfair one.

Early warning signs of self-harm can appear in children almost a decade before it starts, say researchers. The team at the University of Cambridge found two distinct groups that were more likely to harm themselves. The first included those who struggle to control their emotions, and the second featured youngsters more willing to take risks than others their age.

After vaccination rates declined earlier this month, the United States’ campaign to get every American inoculated against COVID-19 got a much needed boost from the youths. According to the New York Times, 2.5 million children aged 12 to 15 have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine and 23 percent of kids aged 12 to 17 have received at least one dose. Earlier this month public health experts began fretting about declining vaccine rates as most of the adults who wanted a vaccine were able to access one.

When a baby is born prematurely, immediate skin-to-skin contact could save their lives.

Research from the 5B45 initiative showed the more words little children were exposed to, especially before they turn five-years-old, the better. Experts said reading not only builds their brains, but helps a child feel nurtured and loved.

By Emma Young. Girls seemed to show more empathy in recent study, but results are far from conclusive.

Although the fairy tale of the wicked stepmother is a tale as old as time, the effects of blending children with their new stepfamilies may not be as grim as once thought. In fact, new research shows that stepchildren are not at a disadvantage compared to their peers from single-parent households and actually experience better outcomes than their halfsiblings — good news for the more than 113 million Americans that are part of a steprelationship.

Former children’s commissioner for England launches case against video-sharing app

In her new book "Addiction Inoculation," Jessica Lahey writes that to stay sober and keep her sons from repeating her mistakes, she would have to banish secrets and shame and establish open, honest and transparent communication.

“Books feed and cure and chortle and collide,” Gwendolyn Brooks wrote in her 1969 ode to why we read. For Kafka, a book was “the axe for the frozen sea inside us”; for Galileo, nothing less than a source of superhuman powers. “Without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no concept of humanity,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his visionary 1930 meditation on “the magic of the book” and why we will always remain under its generous spell, no matter how the technologies of reading may change.

Social disadvantage can cause stress that leads to changes in 'connectivity' between brain regions, potentially harming adolescents' ability to plan, set goals, and self-reflect.

Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

What happens when the Censor Ship sails up to shore and claims some problematic kids' books? Enjoy this poem and find out.

"We’ve forgotten how to motivate kids to do chores without nagging or bribing, how to discipline without yelling or time-outs, and how to relate to children in a way that builds confidence and self-sufficiency."

A 6-year-old British girl born with one arm was thrilled to learn that her GoFundMe page had raised enough money for a new bionic arm. TODAY’s Hodo Kotb has your Morning Boost.

One of the most popular toy choices are those made from plush materials. Here are some benefits of soft toys for babies and children.