Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew ...

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years ...

This simple card game is a fun, easy way to teach your child letter sounds. Cut the cardstock paper into small squares, about six of each color. Assign each color a letter, and write the letters on ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created ...

Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything else ...

We get to the root of Animal Control’s phobia, and Mr. Clown gets his “Ahhh” removed at the dentist. Ozzie buys far too many bananas from Mo, the grocer. We get to the root of Animal Control’s phobia.

For the past month or so, I’ve been getting excited to write a post about helping young children begin to recognize letters and understand that print is meaningful. It’s taken me too long, though, ...

Benjamin Franklin was many things. Politician, scientist, inventor, printer author, he was a visionary whose ideas helped shape America. But he also had some notions that, while founded on sound logic ...

Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language. Credit...Amanda Cotton Supported by By Carl Zimmer Ever ...