Researchers have discovered the secrets to enhancing youth participation in school and community-based garden programs. A three-year study entitled "Greener Voices" proves that children will engage in learning more readily when given responsibility for decision making and planning.

A study of more than 400 children of first-generation immigrants is among the first longitudinal studies to demonstrate that one’s ethnic identity forms prior to adolescence. Furthermore, the three-year study found that a child’s positive sense of ethnic identity is associated with the desire to socialize with children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

A new study has raised concerns about the long-term impact of television watching on children's attention spans. Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand studied 1,000 children.

More than 6 million kids in this country have asthma – or do they? New research shows many children are being misdiagnosed. Instead of asthma, they may actually have a much less serious condition that doesn’t require medication. There is a simple test that can show emergency room doctors and parents the difference.

With the KeyFit 30, now your child can ride in the safest rear-facing position for longer

Customers Invited to Round-Up Their Purchases to the Next Whole Dollar 100 Percent of the Donations to Benefit Children in Need

From July 29th to August 10th in the framework of Sunchild First Regional Environmental Festival “Sunchild Summer Camp” was realized. Selected children-participants of “Following the Sun” educational program from different regions of Armenia during 12 days in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia took express courses of Ecology, Film Cutting, First Aid, English&Internet, Ecological Law and Journalism.

"I have been shocked to see that children could still die of hunger in Rio de Janeiro..."

In our global world, writer David Burke says, Americans must improve their language skills, and should start at an early age. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the author, who has taught American slang to foreign English learners, and is now using fairy tales to teach foreign languages to American children.

The World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund say breast-feeding babies immediately after birth can prevent many neonatal deaths in developing countries. The U.N. agencies are promoting the life-saving benefits of early breastfeeding as the theme for this year's World Breastfeeding Week, which gets under way Wednesday.

Summer camp usually involves making craft projects and singing around the campfire, but at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, campers use their imaginations and knowledge to design a community on Mars.

The U.N. refugee agency and U.N. Children's Fund are jointly appealing for $129 million to help get tens of thousands of uprooted Iraqi children back into school. The money will be used to support the governments of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon provide school for an additional 155,000 young Iraqi refugees during the coming school year.