Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse? By Erik Parens.

A new generation of parents is taking solutions from the workplace and transferring them to the home. From accountability checklists to branding sessions, the result is a bold new blueprint for happy families, writes Bruce Feiler.

His name is Wrinkles and he's booked for months in advance. By Peter Holley.

When it comes to teaching kids the Golden Rule, Sunday school might not be the best bet. A new study in the journal Current Biology found children in religious households are significantly less generous than their non-religious peers. At the same time, religious parents were more likely than non-religious ones to consider their children empathetic and sensitive to the plight of others.

How much of the pressure to avoid formula is coming from companies with a financial stake in the matter? By Ester Bloom.

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ An extract from Svetlana Alexiyevich's book on the USSR and Afghanistan.

When you have kids, everything changes. Going for a short walk in the sunshine becomes an epic adventure, and doing anything as exciting as skateboarding is pretty much off the agenda. If only there was a way of combining skateboarding, getting outside in the sunshine for a while, and spending some quality time with your child. It turns out there is, and it's called the Longboardstroller.

Sixteen children at the Brooklyn school appeared on a list with that title; nine later left. Current and former employees say the network puts pressure on some parents to withdraw. By Kate Taylor.

Poisoned candy myths are urban legends that malevolent individuals could hide poison or drugs, or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distribute the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating.

Announcement in state media follows months of speculation about notorious family planning rule

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to require gun owners to store their firearms in locked containers or install trigger locks when not using them. Under the ordinance, handguns will need to be disabled and kept on the owner's person or within close enough proximity that it is in the owner's control. The measure aims to prevent guns from falling into the hands of children who may accidentally fire the weapons.

Have you heard the scary news reports of how people are going to taint kids’ candy with pot now that it’s getting more legal? There’s… no evidence for that. There’s also no evidence that strangers poison kids’ Halloween candy in general. That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

On the bonds made between parents and children during a nightly ritual. By Rivka Galchen.

The Oatmeal: October 26 2015

Independent scientists and nutritionists at the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) have today published new guidelines for healthy eating for children. The guide...

Number of Catholics has plummeted, but church still dictates admissions criteria for vast majority of schools – with non-believers at bottom of pile

This is a personal account of the questions I considered related to learning music when my son was a toddler. I wanted to be prepared to support him musically as he grew older so that music would be an enjoyable and rewarding experience in his life.

At the largest charter school network in New York City, strict academic and behavior standards set the stage for learning. That doesn't exclude children as young as 5 or 6 years old, who can be given out-of-school suspensions if they don't follow the rules. Special correspondent for education John Merrow explores what that policy means for both the child and the school.

Even in big cities like Tokyo, small children take the subway and run errands by themselves. The reason has a lot to do with group dynamics.

An 11-year-old boy fatally shot his 12-year-old brother during a target-shooting outing in eastern Ohio, the local sheriff said Tuesday. The shooting occurred while the boys from Moore, South Carolina, were with a man visiting a friend's property in rural Lee Township, roughly 50 miles west of Pittsburgh, Carroll County Sheriff Dale Williams said.