Airplanes can be a stressful experience, and that stress can be felt tenfold when flying with children. When you bring your kid along, you will have so much extra stuff to carry, organize, and keep tr…
Study finds that fathers treat daughters and sons very differently – even as toddlers
BY: NADIA ZAIDI It’s true that parental sensitivities must be tailored to each child – and apparently each gender, too. According to a new study published in the American Psychological As…
Mental health and children: why we need to teach kids about mental health
Talking to children can be challenging especially if it involves serious matters of an adult nature. Mental health is one of those matters, but like sex education, it is a subject matter that needs to…
Artificial life: Meet the first ever artificially produced embryo
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS In 1978, an English doctor snipped newborn Louise Brown’s umbilical cord, slapped the baby on the rear, and handed off the crying infant to a proud mother and father. It would h…
Watch these parents get high with their kids for the very first time
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Marijuana has been stirring up controversy for over a decade, yet it still remains one of the most talked about issues today. While most millennials have jumped on the ol’ we…
A look inside the brilliant new feminist magazine that’s empowering girls ages 5 to 10
BY: KRUPA JOSEPH “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams,” Eleanor Roosevelt once rightly said. The meaning is quite apparent – success is for those w…
Why do women really want children?
By: Zoe Melnyk Just a single generation ago, it was completely normal for a woman to graduate from high school, get married, and have children. In 1980, the average age for women to start having child…
How sending your kid to daycare will make them stronger and more successful
By: Adrian Smith Daycare has long been noted for its academic benefits, particularly long term. For example, studies have shown that high school students who went to a high quality day care as kids ea…
This politician brings her super-cute daughter to Parliament to prove an important point
BY: ALEX BROWN An Italian representative of the European Parliament, Licia Ronzulli, made waves in the media after sparking an important global discussion about the rights of new mothers. The funny th…
My classroom of chatty 10-year-old students taught me the meaning of empathy in education
BY: CODY HOFFMAN Teaching is full of extremes. Some days, you come home feeling like a mess. You sit on the bus feeling frustrated, your back sore and your voice even worse. A toddler on the bus begin…
This photographer helps children with cancer live out their wildest dreams
BY: JESSICA BEUKER “Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” A line from a Shel Silverstein poem was all it took to inspire Jonathan Diaz to make dreams come true for child cancer patients.…
Photos of children that shook history and the stories that still haunt their photographers
BY: TYLER FYFE There is something deeply disturbing about seeing the soiled innocence of a child. Its power lies in its familiarity. In children we see two visions of the world— visions of our own dis…
South Korean architects turned this abandoned mansion into an active children’s centre
BY: ZOE MELNYK What was once a crumbling deserted building, rotting in a rural area of South Korea is now a thriving children’s centre that promotes healthy living and education while providing adoles…
Chief annuls 300 child marriages so that girls in Malawi can go to school
BY: TYLER FYFE On the outskirts of a border village in Southern Malawi, stands a group of girls with an averted gaze. Some are younger than ten. They are already balancing on the finish line of childh…
Photographer goes behind the scenes of an African mine to show the true cost of gold
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: MATJAZ KRIVIC They can’t read, they can’t write but they can dig. At the crack of dawn children of Burkina Faso one of the world’s poorest countries work alongside their parents slavin…
Children around the world with their favourite toys capture the transition of childhood innocence
PHOTOGRAPHER: GABRIELE GALIMBERTI From Texas to Kenya all kids have one thing in common: they’ve got big imaginations and an undying love for their toys. Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti has t…
Irish activists are using clever street art to fight the ignorant opposition to gay marriage
BY: AOIFE RYAN For a small island nation with a population of just 4.5 million people, Ireland’s cultural and political reach has spread remarkably far across the globe. This year, May 22nd to be exac…
Parents are being investigated by Child Services for letting their kids play outside
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I’m sure that many of you can remember walking home from elementary school by yourself. I’m sure you have fond memories of playing at the park with your friends, and meeting up with…
I never want kids and everyone should just accept that
BY: SINEAD MULHERN I’m going to go ahead and say that thing you’re not supposed to say. I don’t think I’ll ever be a mother. I hope I never become a mother. I don’t have the desire to raise children. …
“The Mountain That Eats Man”: The Child Miners of Bolivia
BY: JONAS WRESCH The sun begins to rise and a silver light begins to illuminate the terracotta rooftops of the city of Potosi, Bolivia. It is 5 a.m. Thousands of men, women and children make their way…