Straight As might look impressive on paper, but they're not what carried a girl through adulthood. If you want to raise a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Callan Nix has been working towards this moment for the last year – showing her 1,119-pound American calf at the State Fair of Texas. "Ever since we started our operation," Nix said. "It's all on the ...