As the school year wraps up, many children are keen for summer break. Summer means sunshine, and hopefully popsicles and lots of playtime. But for many families, summer also brings a combination of ...

Most parents and teachers want children to be happy. To that end, parents find themselves doing things for kids to make them happy, like buying gifts, taking them for ice cream, playing games together ...

When bestselling children’s book author Jill Twiss considered the theme for her next book, she turned to the same source of inspiration that led to her first book, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, ...

We were somewhere between a dusty diner's parking lot and an old ghost town when I started passing my bright list of ideas around the backseat. "Everyone choose something you want to do! Our first act ...

Manhattan Beach resident Janet Jones was in third grade when she read a biography of Helen Keller and was so inspired that she started a neighborhood collection to raise money for the American ...