The holiday season is right around the corner and these are the eight games that are on my kids' Christmas list this year.

A groundbreaking children’s television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. “Carl the Collector,” which made ...

Between organized sports, activities and hovering parents, kids don't have the time — or skills — to initiate free play. That's a problem.

Actors and real-life good friends Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are collaborating once again, this time on Broadway. Watch the conversation in the player above. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown ...

Online can be a dangerous place for kids. Explicit content, predators, and harassment and bullying are just some of the dangers that kids can be exposed to. But with a bit of know-how, the internet ...

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One of my daughters loves tennis; she’s always scanning our neighborhood parks for a brick wall she can volley against without accidentally pelting other kids with balls. She does this even though we ...

More than two dozen of the student-built guitars got air play this summer at the Schack Art Center in Everett. The exhibit included a pizza-slice shaped guitar, pink frosted donut guitar, tulip guitar ...

Sergei Murashov is as erudite as he is flexible. But the chatty and sinewy Pittsburgh Penguins goaltending prospect has one matter he isn’t going to ruminate on in abundance: work. To be precise, he ...

Imagine living in a neighborhood where there aren’t any fences separating each person’s backyard. Would you be upset if your next door neighbor’s kids occasionally entered your backyard to retrieve a ...

Two years after a new arena opened in the village of Carmacks, Yukon, kids are flocking to the ice. Paris Wheeler and her children are now regulars at the rink. Her five-year-old, Amara, is among the ...

In a refugee camp in Bangladesh, children jump rope with chains of rubber bands. In wartime Gaza, kids fly kites made from discarded parachutes. And in Ukraine, youngsters tussle in make-believe war, ...