Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As parents, we all aspire to raise respectful humans who never forget to mind their manners, but instilling such propriety in your ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Seven-year-old sisters Shawna and Elise Rippee walked very slowly, careful not to spill punch -- on the thick carpet or on their fancy clothes -- as they sat to nibble on ...

Parents know that children learn some lessons more quickly than others. Youngsters may be eager to learn lessons related to an extracurricular activity like dance or sports, but other lessons, ...

And Williamson hopes more schools will take Brennan's up on its offer of the free brunch and etiquette lessons, geared for kindergarten through second-grade students. Lafayette Academy also received a ...

There’s no such thing as a “perfect parent,” but there are incredibly important ways for parents to show up for their kids — teaching them empathy, compassion, trust, respect, and honesty in ways that ...

DETROIT – Learning from home has been a new and sometimes challenging experience for many families through this pandemic. As the school year wraps up, there’s a different kind of lesson you can pass ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times. First, there was the child who ...

If the email addresses of Amanda McCraw’s eighth-graders didn’t contain some portion of their names, she would have no clue who the senders were. “There’s no subject line, no signature. It’s just, ...

The toughest problem of Kevin Hatamiya’s brief elementary school career doesn’t involve arithmetic. It’s his hair-trigger emotions. Whenever life throws the 7-year-old second-grader a setback, his ...

Between curriculum changes and technological advances, schools today no longer teach kids these 11 old-fashioned lessons.