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Traveling With Your Kids Will Make Them Better in School, Study Suggests (Video) A new survey suggests that if you want your kids to be more successful in school, you should take them on vacation more.

Confirmed: P.E. Is Terrible Not only does it do little to improve physical fitness, but it also leads to truancy and other disciplinary problems.

"We talk incessantly about how to make children more “resilient”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers, and in the US universities can’t hire therapists fast enough to keep up with the demand. What are we doing wrong?"

By mollycoddling our children, we're fuelling mental illness in teenagers | Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky Exposure to normal stresses is vital for children’s future wellbeing, say academics Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky

Take a walk down memory lane:

Top holiday toys from the year you were born Stacker counts down iconic holiday gifts from 1920 to today.

Calling all kids! NPR wants your podcast!

NPR Student Podcast Challenge: Home We're inviting students around the country to create a podcast, then — with the help of a teacher — compete for a chance to have you work appear on NPR.

Here’s some information on adolescent brain development & screens:

Is Screen Time Bad for Kids’ Brains? A study featured on “60 Minutes” is sure to alarm parents. Here’s what scientists know, and don’t know, about the link between screens, behavior, and development.