Just decades ago, parents would typically give their kids space to figure things out on their own, and as a result, those kids gained invaluable life skills that are increasingly rare today.

While problem-solving skills are not taught directly in the classroom, they are part of everyday life building skills. It is important to provide children real world examples and some rationale behind ...

This four-part article series provides parents and caregivers research-backed insights from renowned experts to everyday ...

"Never Too Early: CPS with Very Young Kids," is set to release on March 29, 2024 and stream free on the Lives in the Balance website. It’s never too early to engage kids in the process of solving the ...

Kim Louis told the kids gathered at United Presbyterian Church of New Kensington to pretend they were on a tropical island, somewhere green and warm. Then imagine an impending snowstorm threatened to ...

Part of life is growing up from a child into an adult. It's a process in which we learn from our mistakes and work through our problems to get the skills necessary for the next part of our lives.

As the engineering and technology field continues to expand across central Ohio, one local daycare is proving that children ...

I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It’s a chaotic – but functional – solution to the ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

The way kids grow up has changed drastically over generations. And kids raised in the 60s and 70s had 9 common sense traits that are almost impossible to find nowadays.

A group of Endeavour Elementary students just returned from Tennessee, where they competed against some of the best problem solvers in the world. It's part of Destination Imagination, a world-wide ...