The GitHub for Kids Urges Them to Be Inventors, Not Users
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For Alex Klein, online forums were not an altogether friendly place to get an education in coding.
While you'd never guess it from the number of murders, rapes, and kidnappings that are in the news, America is the safest it's ever been.
Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Whether they're designing flying cars or teleporters, aspiring young inventors will have the chance to share their visions for the technology of the future,
Don't feed this to your baby
Early last week, I had the privilege of sitting down for dinner with Robert Kiyosaki and his wife Kim. Now, if you've never read any of their books, I highly recommend you go check them out, especially Robert's first book: Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Fed up with noisy children spoiling her coffee, Liat Hughes Joshi began to wonder how previous generations tackled the problem – and the concept of New Old-fashioned Parenting was born
Fed up with noisy children spoiling her coffee, Liat Hughes Joshi began to wonder how previous generations tackled the problem – and the concept of New Old-fashioned Parenting was born
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On a recent Saturday afternoon, a 10-year old Maryland boy named Rafi and his 6-year old sister, Dvora, walked home by themselves from a playground about a mile away from their suburban house.
Zoomer The Interactive Robotic Pet. Hands-On Review of The Zoomer Dog From Spin Master.
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To make cotton candy--the pink and blue kind you get at the state fair and on the boardwalk at the beach--you use centrifugal force to spin liquefied sugar into fine strands that get wrapped around a stick.
Why buy pre-made (and small) solid rocket motors when you can roll your own?
Or maybe any parent? Guess he wants us all to be slaves to the system, always looking for more money at the expense of traditional family values? During a speech in Rhode Island today, President Obama called for more taxpayer-spending on pre-scho
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Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames — Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.
School districts across America continue to push the sex education boundaries, seeking to teach controversial subjects to students at younger and younger ages. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Clark County School District – the 5th largest
Bringing microscopes where none have gone before.
Many metro Detroit kids headed back to class on Tuesday with the pencils, pens, notebooks and lunch ? but what about a mobile phone?
It's Sunday afternoon, the sun finally came out and its been shining down for hours. The sky's blue and perfectly clear now, but earlier in the day when it was still dark it rained.
Furious parents not informed until police had taken son into custody
New survey data from Colorado indicate that marijuana legalization so far has not led to an increase in pot smoking by teenagers, as prohibitionists warned it would.
A 392-page textbook typically used for college-level heath classes is being adopted at one school to teach ninth-graders about oral sex, vibrators, gay marriage, and bondage.
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Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees—often from situations U.S. policies have helped to create—and they should be treated as such.
The National Science Foundation has committed $10 million to build robots that will act as "personal trainers" for children, in an effort to influence their behavior and eating habits.
The bill would make it illegal for groups like the NRA and firearms manufacturers to showcase their brand on child-sized hats and clothing, among a host of other new regulations.
Just because the folks at Planned Parenthood don't really do mammograms with the tax dollars they get doesn't mean they're not experts in some things. Take, for example, the Planned Parenthood counselor who told what she thought was a 15-year-old g
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