The 1985 American school lunchbox contained specific items that defined a generation’s daily lunch experience. Many of those items are now actively prohibited at most American schools, either by ...

For a kid in 1970s America, the hours between the final school bell and dinnertime were a world unto themselves — unsupervised, unstructured, and almost unimaginable by today’s standards. You let ...

The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic diseases and mental health problems like depression, a new study says. Much of ...

Amidst all the talk this past week about Pamela Druckerman’s new book, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, there was one phrase that immediately lodged ...