While the struggles and challenges of modern adulthood aren’t lost on baby boomers, many of whom worry that their adult children will be worse off than they were at the same age, their childhood ...

Nobody taught me to ride the bus alone. One day, I just did it. I was ten, maybe eleven, and my mother handed me exact change and told me which stop to get off at, and that was the whole lesson. No ...

Most sports fans spent their summer tracking their favorite baseball teams and the Michael Vick scandal. I lived in isolation in the mountains, preoccupied with a less conventional sport: whitewater ...

Kids in the 1970s learned several life skills that modern parenting has pretty much wiped out of children today.

Discover how the everyday tasks of Baby Boomers' childhood prepared them to face life's challenges with calm and ...

Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning. Most Americans, 85%, say they can swim, ...

Working on your own car is both fun and cost-effective. But it's also another, secret third thing: educational. Wrenching can teach you all sorts of new skills, from wiring and diagnostics to things ...

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (KTIV) - It’s every parent’s worst nightmare around the water. Your child falling in. Drowning. That nightmare turned into a reality for one Siouxland mom after her young daughter ...

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Elementary school-aged students lined up on red dots in a classroom-like setting prepared to talk about their 4-H projects, which they had worked on for several months. They ...

Melissa Shields described her 3-year-old daughter, Zola, as “cautious” during the few times the toddler had been in a pool. As Saturday's free swimming lesson progressed at the Westbury High School ...