In the early days of "Sesame Street" -- that is, B.E. (Before Elmo) -- Sesame Street was a pretty grimy place.
You know the drill: You give your child an ultimatum -- "Get dressed or we're staying home!" -- and naturally she says, "Okay, we'll stay home!" Might as well plant a big "L" on your forehead.
There was stone cold silence in the car, as the Kumars drove home.
In the past year, there's been so much talk about job loss, high unemployment rates, lack of jobs and employment declines that it's been hard to focus on anything else.
"Who controls the past controls the future."
Chicken nuggets. Sandwiches. Pizza. Baseball games. Play-Doh. These are some of the basics of childhood that could prove deadly to my 4-year-old son, Teddy.
Put bedtime bugaboos -- and your kids -- to rest with these expert solutions.
Authorities have charged a 20-year-old man with murder and attempted murder in a stabbing rampage at a Belgian nursery school that left two children and a staff member dead and a dozen others wounded.
Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.
"Daddy puts on your bras sometimes," my then 4-year-old said nonchalantly as I tried on lingerie in a department store dressing room.
In the early days of "Sesame Street" -- that is, B.E. (Before Elmo) -- Sesame Street was a pretty grimy place.
You know the drill: You give your child an ultimatum -- "Get dressed or we're staying home!" -- and naturally she says, "Okay, we'll stay home!" Might as well plant a big "L" on your forehead.
There was stone cold silence in the car, as the Kumars drove home.
In the past year, there's been so much talk about job loss, high unemployment rates, lack of jobs and employment declines that it's been hard to focus on anything else.
"Who controls the past controls the future."
Chicken nuggets. Sandwiches. Pizza. Baseball games. Play-Doh. These are some of the basics of childhood that could prove deadly to my 4-year-old son, Teddy.
Put bedtime bugaboos -- and your kids -- to rest with these expert solutions.
Authorities have charged a 20-year-old man with murder and attempted murder in a stabbing rampage at a Belgian nursery school that left two children and a staff member dead and a dozen others wounded.
Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.
"Daddy puts on your bras sometimes," my then 4-year-old said nonchalantly as I tried on lingerie in a department store dressing room.
A new study tries to isolate the factors that make children more prone to bullies -- and to suggest what parents can do
Though the U.S. economy has softened this year -- headlines warn of mortgage woes, layoffs and escalating gas prices -- there are still jobs out there... you just have to know where to look.
Did your child walk and talk early? Does she have a brain like a sponge? Scribble magnificently? Love learning? Ask questions that leave you marveling (and scrambling to Google an answer)?
In Klong Toey, a Bangkok district between a highway and the Chao Phraya River, families of four share motorbikes, street vendors sell residents pouches of food, and doors of homes are open to the outside. A salesman on a bike cart sells broomsticks, while motorcycle taxi drivers, dressed in orange vests, wait at a corner.
What's it really take to parent a preschooler? It's pretty simple, once you realize what kids this age can and can't do (and what sets them off and what keeps them happy!). Here are seven qualities that make it much easier to manage all that, and why they're so crucial when you've got an independent-minded, boundary-testing picky eater on your hands.
Mention that you're thinking of taking the kids to Orlando -- especially if you're first timers -- and you'll hear how your mother-in-law's sister's cousin scored discount tickets to Walt Disney World. Your son's first-grade teacher will fill you in on which character breakfasts her sister-in-law's aunt raved about (never mind that you know your preschooler will be terrified of the giant fuzzy creatures.)
1. Be artful. Stock your child's coloring table with used printer paper and empty cereal boxes. He can draw on the unprinted sides of the paper, and the insides of cereal boxes are great for finger painting. Bonus points for turning his artwork into wrapping paper.
Julia has never been especially fearful, so I was caught off guard when just before her fifth birthday she became terrified of being poisoned. She cried after she accidentally swallowed a crayon shaving. Even the beloved cherry-red lipsticks that were her favorite part of dress-up now seemed fraught with danger. "Mommy! By mistake lipstick got on my tongue!" she yelled, running into my room one day. "Am I going to die?"
The boss of a Chinese toy manufacturing company involved in a Mattel recall after its products were found to contain excessive lead levels has hanged himself, Chinese media reported Monday.
From hitting to lying, some of the worst things your child does are actually achievements you can be proud of!
For once, my just-back-from-the-cleaners blazer actually matches the blouse underneath, and by 7:30 a.m. I've managed to feed the baby, make two lunches, and find a lost permission slip. The only minor mishap comes when my 6-month-old wipes oatmeal in my hair. But the finish line's in sight, and I dash out the door for the 40-minute drive to work. It isn't until I get to the office and sit at my desk that I glance down and see: right foot, brown shoe; left foot, blue one.
It's 8 a.m. in the morning and a group of tiny tots are heading towards a simple building on the outskirts of their village near Mombasa.
When it comes to torture, we could all learn a thing or two from kids. Who knows better than they how to extract most anything they want within minutes of applying the technique? I'm talking about whining, of course -- that grating mewling that causes us to do anything (anything!) just to make it go away. But you can break the habit. And the rewards of victory can be rich for both of you.
Toymaker Mattel on Monday posted first-quarter profits, versus expectations for a loss, as strong sales of its pre-school Fisher-Price toys and its Hot Wheels toys for boys offset a 21 percent drop in U.S. sales of Barbie dolls.
A daycare operator -- armed with grenades and a gun -- released more than 30 preschool children and their teachers Wednesday after holding them hostage on a bus for more than eight hours.
While rummaging through an old box, my daughter, Claire, came across the stuffed bear I'd had when I was her age, a deeply loved creature named Teddy. "How come Teddy has no fur?" she asked. "Why doesn't she have eyes?" I explained that my cousin's dog had chewed up Teddy when I was a kid. She was aghast.
At home, the phrase "Go watch TV" to kids has replaced "Go outside and play" in many families. At school, the daily hour of recess is dwindling. The combination is contributing to many kids not getting enough exercise, according to some experts.
Forget the MTV generation. Today's up-and-coming rock stars are setting their sights on a whole new target audience: the sippy-cup crowd.
THREE-YEAR-OLDS DON'T HAVE Disposable income. And when it comes to television, few of them channel-surf. Preschoolers, in other words, are not the audience you'd expect to be the focus of a cable T...
A sharp-looking man carrying an Hermès briefcase emerges from a chauffeured Town Car in the parking lot of a quiet little strip mall in suburban Cabin John, Md.--the kind of place that could be any...
A psychologist and an attorney testified Wednesday about the key roles they played in the estrangement of Michael Jackson from a young cancer survivor who once called him "Daddy Michael," but who now claims the King of Pop sexually molested him.
Seeing hordes of parents bringing their preschoolers to "The Incredibles" always amazed me.
The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday.
In a deal that would unite the biggest stars of the two-to-five-year-old set, Comcast Corp. (CMCSK) is in advanced negotiations with the Public Broadcasting System, Sesame Street Workshop and HIT Entertainment to develop the first 24- hour network dedicated to preschool kids, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
Three key storylines play out today: President Bush at the White House with Ariel Sharon. John Kerry in New York with Hillary Clinton. And the ongoing 9/11 commission hearings with George Tenet and Robert Mueller.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: My parents were terrible teachers and role models when it came to money. I have my own kids now and don't want to make the same mistakes. What should I be teaching them about money? --C.P.
The movie star and the geeky investment shop? The pairing would never fly on-screen, but California's gubernatorial race has turned up all kinds of oddities. In fact, candidate Arnold Schwarzenegg...
We already have the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Should we add the Private Schools Corrupt Practices Act?
You can hardly venture onto the campaign trail without stumbling over some candidate's education proposal. They're everywhere, like lice on a second-grader's head. But pick the nits of this issue, ...
January's "Why Middle-Class Kids Are Losing Out" prompted several readers to question our story's emphasis on what we as a nation are, or aren't, investing in day care and early childhood education...
Americans like to say that our children are our most valuable asset. Yet children at all income levels are suffering from neglect--not just the children of poverty, as some would like you to think....
Lillian Micko had a vision. It was around five o'clock one evening last spring. She was pulling out of a McDonald's drive-through in her hometown of Mount Laurel, N.J. with her boys Danny, 11, and ...
YOU KNOW THE BULL MARKET IS LONG IN THE hoof when a tightwad like me is attracted to three small growth stocks that each rose 100% or better in 1995. Yet I'm convinced that as long as the bulls don...
GYMBOREE Gymboree is turning child's play into big business. The company, in Burlingame, California, began in 1976 by offering play and exercise classes to young children and their parents. Ten yea...
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While Americans proclaim the social and academic benefits of early-childhood education, the French deliver it: Virtually all children attend preschool, and eight of 10 go to free, government-run in...
Imagine an America where: -- All parents could take time off from their jobs with pay until their children were beyond infancy and enrolled in high-quality day care. -- All children could attend fr...
THE EDUCATION message is getting through. When asked how concerned corporations were about the problems in American public schools, 98% of the companies responding to FORTUNE's fourth annual educat...
IF THE WELL-BEING of its children is the proper measure of the health of a civilization, the United States is in grave danger. Of the 65 million Americans under 18, fully 20% live in poverty, 22% l...
WHEN DETROIT announced a plan to open three all-male, all-black public schools last year, the National Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union rose up and defeated it. In resp...
If you rode the toy stocks' 90% rise last year, give a pat on the back to Barbie and G.I. Joe. Together with other venerable oldsters of playland, they helped push sales of traditional toys in the ...
WHEN IT COMES to early childhood education, the U.S. ranks near the bottom of the class. Nearly every other major industrialized nation -- and even some developing countries -- see the job of educa...
THE SOCIETY/COVER STORY 52 HOW THE AVERAGE AMERICAN GETS BY Middle-class squeeze may be the most potent force shaping American life and the economy over the next decade: Money is tight, jobs insecu...
CORPORATE America's commitment to reading, writing, and arithmetic in 1991 was bigger, broader, and better than ever. Even more encouraging, CEOs of the leading companies believe their considerable...
A former teacher at a Simi Valley private school filed a lawsuit . . . against a preschooler she once taught, saying the boy caused permanent injury when he kicked her in the ankle. Lynne M. Fava a...
AS A FRIEND said of W. C. Fields, anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. These days Uncle Claude might find some like-minded folks over at % Quaker Oats Co. Kids and pooches have not ...
Like most parents, Blake Magee's mother and father want only the best for their 15-month-old son. Since both Jennifer and Donald work, they pay a nanny to take care of Blake (left), and hope to pla...
SUDDENLY Head Start is on nearly everybody's agenda. Calling the $1.4 billion federal preschool program ''something near and dear to all of us,'' President Bush proposes to spend an additional $500...
CHALLENGES 8 SAVING OUR SCHOOLS By working together, business leaders, parents, teachers, and communities can revitalize our most endangered institution. by Ann M. Morrison
By the year 2000, every child must start school ready to learn. The United States must increase the high school graduation rate to no less than 90%. In critical subjects, at the fourth, eighth, and...
What we need in this country is a trustworthy, affordable child-care program that is open to everyone. My proposal is to use existing elementary schools as the hub of a comprehensive solution. We'v...
IT IS OF NO SMALL significance that poverty is suddenly returning to the forefront of the American consciousness. Perhaps it is mostly a comment on the immense power of our media-age Presidents to ...
''Investing in our children is not just rhetoric. It's sound business practice, although many of our colleagues have yet to make that discovery.'' So said Arnold Hiatt, CEO of Stride Rite, who alon...
BABIES AREN'T just Gerber's business anymore. When William Popejoy stepped in to rescue American Savings & Loan Association in 1984, he eliminated 700 company cars, 39 condominiums, nine airplanes,...
AS A MAJOR contributor of tax dollars to public education, corporate America is getting a lousy return on its investment. Not only are schools today not preparing kids for jobs, they aren't even te...
The worst thing that can happen to us columniators is discovering after going to press that what we said ain't exactly so. The second worst thing is discovering that we left out the best parts. Ala...
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