Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

When I pulled out a copy of "The Lost Words," my seven-year-old son stared in amazement. The book is huge, nearly as tall as his torso, and when I opened it up, it spread across both of our laps. He ...

At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children ...

I remember years ago growing up we were taught, and we were instructed from our parents, what to do, how to respect elders, to be considerate to others and to care for the less fortunate etc. Bringing ...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan, a father of 5, sat down with Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to discuss parenting and his 6 words of ...

I'm a mom of a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old who used to fight frequently. I've introduced safe words into our lives so it's easy for everyone to know when to stop. While safe words are usually ...